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Re: [RFA] Fix too many "no debugging symbols found" warnings.
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, pedro at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:13:02 +0300
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix too many "no debugging symbols found" warnings.
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> 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?