From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 122995 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2020 00:58:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 122987 invoked by uid 89); 8 Jan 2020 00:58:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=sk:philipp X-HELO: gateway23.websitewelcome.com Received: from gateway23.websitewelcome.com (HELO gateway23.websitewelcome.com) (192.185.49.60) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:58:38 +0000 Received: from cm17.websitewelcome.com (cm17.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.20]) by gateway23.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB60F5B2B for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2020 18:58:36 -0600 (CST) Received: from box5379.bluehost.com ([162.241.216.53]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id ozgCiPyFdqNtvozgCi3LDO; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 18:58:36 -0600 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tromey.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=HIFJCbcGE3GsElpazMZpRHgfGQpGeT97Kcak6uqJT4k=; b=ecN25t1koN/qwyiH535mWWenpz F4+BjiWzr2vhaoVjfptM5SQ8gH53SaYW3owZ2VXZHml9N/rFsZJSncrbipFL+zNdj65YPVvFn8S9e C2AmZ0nW9Ya3fwhMK1yEhaphl; Received: from 50-194-130-62-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([50.194.130.62]:59408 helo=bapiya) by box5379.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iozgC-003fmA-NY; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:58:36 -0700 From: Tom Tromey To: Philippe Waroquiers Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA 1/3] Implement 'set/show exec-file-mismatch'. References: <20191221143632.15990-1-philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> <20191221143632.15990-2-philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:58:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20191221143632.15990-2-philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> (Philippe Waroquiers's message of "Sat, 21 Dec 2019 15:36:30 +0100") Message-ID: <875zhmrcg8.fsf@tromey.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.91 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2020-01/txt/msg00169.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Philippe" == Philippe Waroquiers writes: Philippe> This option allows to tell GDB to detect and possibly handle mismatched exec-files. Philippe> A recurrent problem with GDB is that GDB uses the wrong exec-file Philippe> when using the attach/detach commands successively. Philippe> Also, in case the user specifies a file on the command line but attaches Philippe> to the wrong PID, this error is not made visible and gives a not user Philippe> understandable behaviour. Thanks. This looks ok to me. I will have to do some searching to see what is up with the test suite patch. I don't know the answer there either. Tom