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From: Eli Zaretskii via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
To: Phi Debian <phi.debian@gmail.com>
Cc: psmith@gnu.org, guinevere@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Improve GDB's first user experience by reducing "print_gdb_version" output
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 15:19:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ikllvsfb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJOr74jA0h48X8qhp_imaBHZs6HFiTEGsz-wwhypWhAjFuOjNQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Phi Debian via Gdb on Wed, 28 May 2025 09:33:09 +0200)

> Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 09:33:09 +0200
> Cc: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>,
>  "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
> From: Phi Debian via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
> 
> FWIW lldb produce nothing
> 
> $ lldb ./hw
> (lldb) target create "./hw"
> Current executable set to '/tmp/hw' (x86_64).
> (lldb)
> 
> 
> One could argue LLVM series is not GNU yet GCC don't produce nothing either
> (even with -v)

Unlike GDB, GCC is not an interactive program, so it produces this
information in the output of "gcc --version" and "gcc --help".

> The proposed minimal greeting is nice, or can be push further with no
> greeting at all (like lldb) assuming gdb --help or man gdb would be the
> starting point leading to apropos...

That'd be going too far, IMO.

  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-28 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-27 20:43 Guinevere Larsen via Gdb
2025-05-27 21:38 ` Paul Smith via Gdb
2025-05-28  7:33   ` Phi Debian via Gdb
2025-05-28 12:19     ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb [this message]
2025-05-28 12:24       ` Guinevere Larsen via Gdb
2025-05-28 13:04         ` Paul Smith via Gdb
     [not found]       ` <CAJOr74gc9zeHQGST3eufT9zYJEsdEkO4m4xgxhQyQNE3kpSUNw@mail.gmail.com>
2025-05-29  9:16         ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb
2025-05-28  7:44   ` Mark Wielaard
2025-05-28 12:30     ` Guinevere Larsen via Gdb
2025-05-30 11:22     ` Florian Weimer via Gdb
2025-05-30 20:39       ` Mark Wielaard
2025-05-28 11:47   ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb
2025-05-28 11:39 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb
2025-05-28 12:15   ` Guinevere Larsen via Gdb

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