Re: [PATCH v2] gdb: Change "list ." command's error when no debuginfo is available

[Guinevere Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>]

On 4/17/24 08:58, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Guinevere Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
>> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 17:00:59 -0300
>>
>> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
>>
>> Currently, when a user tries to list the current location, there are 2
>> different error messages that can happen, either:
>>
>>      (gdb) list .
>>      No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.
>> or
>>      (gdb) list .
>>      No debug information available to print source lines.
>>
>> The difference here is if gdb can find any symtabs at all or not, which
>> is not something too important for end-users - and isn't informative at
>> all. This commit changes it so that the error always says that there
>> isn't debug information available, with these two variants:
>>
>>      (gdb) list .
>>      No debug information available to print source lines at current PC (0x55555555511d).
>> or
>>      (gdb) list .
>>      No debug information available to print source lines at default location.
>>
>> The difference now is if the inferior has started already, which is
>> controlled by the user and may be useful.
> How about this text instead:
>
>    Insufficient debug info for showing source lines at current PC (0x55555555511d).
>
You mean this change only for the error when the inferior has already 
started, or to the prefix of both errors?

Seeing as the errors are for the same root cause, I'd like to keep the 
prefix the same.

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Cheers,
Guinevere Larsen
She/Her/Hers