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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:39:00 -0000
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
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To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
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Subject: Re: "No registers" or "No inferior to debug"?
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> Look at your use case:
> 
>   (gdb) info registers
>   No registers
>   User: "Huh?  How come there aren't any registers?  Wha?"
> 
>   (gdb) info registers
>   The program is not being run
>   User: "Oh, okay, I guess I can't see the registers right now."
> 
> So I like "The program is not being run."
> "The inferior program is not being run." would be okay too.

Info registers works with a core file.  And that is definitly not being run.

Andrew