Bug#591889: gdb usage message misleading

2010-08-13 Thread Michal Suchanek
Excerpts from Daniel Jacobowitz's message of Thu Aug 12 18:42:17 +0200 2010: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:18:01AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > The usage message suggests that when attaching to a process an > > executable image should be specified. This is useless and actually > > harmful, gdb

Bug#591889: gdb usage message misleading

2010-08-12 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:18:01AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > The usage message suggests that when attaching to a process an > executable image should be specified. This is useless and actually > harmful, gdb can only load symbols if an executable is *not* specified. The usage message is corr

Bug#591889: gdb usage message misleading

2010-08-06 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: gdb Version: 6.8-3 Severity: normal The usage message suggests that when attaching to a process an executable image should be specified. This is useless and actually harmful, gdb can only load symbols if an executable is *not* specified. Script started on Fri 06 Aug 2010 10:12:04 AM CE