Bug 14111 - missing part of command in break error message
Summary: missing part of command in break error message
Status: NEW
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Product: gdb
Classification: Unclassified
Component: breakpoints (show other bugs)
Version: HEAD
: P2 normal
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Reported: 2012-05-15 16:19 UTC by Joel Brobecker
Modified: 2012-05-15 16:34 UTC (History)
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Description Joel Brobecker 2012-05-15 16:19:20 UTC
Consider the following dummy code in Ada:

    procedure P is
    begin
       null;
    end P;

Compile it using:

    % gnatmake -g p

Then try to insert a breakpoint on a given task, but with the wrong capitalization for the "task" keyword; we get:

    % gdb p
    (gdb) start
    (gdb) b *p'address TASK 2
    Garbage 2 at end of command

The error message should say that `TASK 2' is the garbage in question. I will submit a patch to fix this part soon.  But there is a second problem with similar symptoms.  Once my patch is applied, the following scenario still fails:

    (gdb) b *p'address TASK Task TasK 2
    Garbage `TasK 2' at end of command

... The quoted portion of the command is missing the first couple of invalid keywords.  The problem is different because it's not find_condition_and_thread that skips these keywords and ignores them, but something before that.

It's probably happening while in the linespec parser, but I don't know whether the linespec parser might rely on the language to find the end of the breakpoint location or not. To be investigated further...
Comment 1 Joel Brobecker 2012-05-15 16:34:35 UTC
This is the URL of the proposed fix for the first failure scenario:
http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-05/msg00578.html