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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: "No registers" or "No inferior to debug"?
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F945382.8030203@redhat.com> (raw)

Hello,

	Ref: default.exp

At present get_selected_frame(), when there is no inferior(1), throws 
the error:

	No registers

Except for the case where the user types:

	(gdb) info registers
	No registers

this message won't be very enlightening.  For instance, a user trying to 
do a return when there is no process to debug would (theoretically) 
encounter the error:

	(gdb) return
	No registers

I'm wondering if the error message should be standardized vis:

	(gdb) info registers
	No inferior to debug
	(gdb) return
	No inferior to debug

Looking through default.exp I see plenty of alternatives vis:

	The program is not being run.
	No stack
	No frame selected
	No registers
	No frame selected

Thoughts?  Suggestions?

Andrew

(1) I'm treating a core file as an inferior here (reasonable?).


             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-20 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-20 21:28 Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-10-20 21:43 ` Kevin Buettner
2003-10-20 21:56 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-10-20 22:39 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-10-21  5:50   ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-21 15:26     ` Andrew Cagney
2003-10-21 18:55       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-21 19:56         ` Andrew Cagney

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