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Re: [RFA] Fix too many "no debugging symbols found" warnings.
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, pedro at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:47:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix too many "no debugging symbols found" warnings.
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:49:25 -0700
>> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
>> Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
>> ? ? ? ? Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
>>
>> Eli, are the docs ok?
>
> The text is okay, but I'm not sure it is accurate wrt the implementation.
>
>> +The @code{set print symbol-loading-warnings} command allows you to enable or
>> +disable printing of warning messages when @value{GDBN} implicitly loads symbols
>> +for files.
>
> This text seems to say that we will print a warning when symbols are
> loaded ``implicitly'', whatever that means. ?But in fact, aren't the
> warnings issued for files that have _no_ debugging symbols at all?
s/implicitly loads symbols for files/tries to load symbols for a file
and finds the file has no symbols/
?