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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2017-09-04 16:49:29 +0100
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2017-09-04 16:49:29 +0100
commite439fa140afdaedb28a97acaa2b0432b884d8a91 (patch)
tree93a1682af136319ce89647a5186295ccc0feb1f9 /gdb/cli
parent7525b645dfaa302091591d0f87d9682ce988ed13 (diff)
Clarify "list" output when specified lines are ambiguous
Currently, with "list LINESPEC1,LINESPEC2", if one of the linespecs is ambiguous, i.e., if it expands to multiple locations, you get this seemingly odd output: (gdb) list foo,bar file: "file0.c", line number: 26 file: "file1.c", line number: 29 Since "foo" above expands to multiple locations, the specified range is indeterminate, and GDB is trying to be helpful by showing you what was ambiguous. It looks confusing to me, though. I think it'd be much more user friendly if GDB actually told you that, like this: (gdb) list foo,bar Specified first line 'foo' is ambiguous: file: "file0.c", line number: 26 file: "file1.c", line number: 29 (gdb) list bar,foo Specified last line 'foo' is ambiguous: file: "file0.c", line number: 26 file: "file1.c", line number: 29 Note, I'm using "first" and "last" in the output because that's what the manual uses: ~~~ list first,last Print lines from first to last. [...] ~~~ Tested on x86-64 GNU/Linux. gdb/ChangeLog: 2017-09-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * cli/cli-cmds.c (edit_command): Pass message to ambiguous_line_spec. (list_command): Pass message to ambiguous_line_spec. Say "first"/"last" instead of "start" and "end" to be consistent with the manual. (ambiguous_line_spec): Add 'format' and vararg parameters. Use them to print formatted message. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: 2017-09-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * gdb.base/list-ambiguous.exp: New file. * gdb.base/list-ambiguous0.c: New file. * gdb.base/list-ambiguous1.c: New file. * gdb.base/list.exp (test_list_range): Adjust expected output.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/cli')
-rw-r--r--gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c37
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c b/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
index 8221747ae4..01ae88e4e4 100644
--- a/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
+++ b/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
@@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ static void list_command (char *, int);
/* Prototypes for local utility functions */
-static void ambiguous_line_spec (struct symtabs_and_lines *);
+static void ambiguous_line_spec (struct symtabs_and_lines *,
+ const char *format, ...)
+ ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF (2, 3);
static void filter_sals (struct symtabs_and_lines *);
@@ -825,7 +827,8 @@ edit_command (char *arg, int from_tty)
}
if (sals.nelts > 1)
{
- ambiguous_line_spec (&sals);
+ ambiguous_line_spec (&sals,
+ _("Specified line is ambiguous:\n"));
xfree (sals.sals);
return;
}
@@ -980,6 +983,11 @@ list_command (char *arg, int from_tty)
for (p = arg; p != arg1 && *p >= '0' && *p <= '9'; p++);
linenum_beg = (p == arg1);
+ /* Save the range of the first argument, in case we need to let the
+ user know it was ambiguous. */
+ const char *beg = arg;
+ size_t beg_len = arg1 - beg;
+
while (*arg1 == ' ' || *arg1 == '\t')
arg1++;
if (*arg1 == ',')
@@ -987,7 +995,9 @@ list_command (char *arg, int from_tty)
no_end = 0;
if (sals.nelts > 1)
{
- ambiguous_line_spec (&sals);
+ ambiguous_line_spec (&sals,
+ _("Specified first line '%.*s' is ambiguous:\n"),
+ (int) beg_len, beg);
xfree (sals.sals);
return;
}
@@ -998,6 +1008,10 @@ list_command (char *arg, int from_tty)
dummy_end = 1;
else
{
+ /* Save the last argument, in case we need to let the user
+ know it was ambiguous. */
+ const char *end_arg = arg1;
+
event_location_up location
= string_to_event_location (&arg1, current_language);
if (dummy_beg)
@@ -1015,7 +1029,9 @@ list_command (char *arg, int from_tty)
}
if (sals_end.nelts > 1)
{
- ambiguous_line_spec (&sals_end);
+ ambiguous_line_spec (&sals_end,
+ _("Specified last line '%s' is ambiguous:\n"),
+ end_arg);
xfree (sals_end.sals);
xfree (sals.sals);
return;
@@ -1030,7 +1046,7 @@ list_command (char *arg, int from_tty)
if (!no_end && !dummy_beg && !dummy_end
&& sal.symtab != sal_end.symtab)
- error (_("Specified start and end are in different files."));
+ error (_("Specified first and last lines are in different files."));
if (dummy_beg && dummy_end)
error (_("Two empty args do not say what lines to list."));
@@ -1515,13 +1531,20 @@ alias_command (char *args, int from_tty)
/* Print a list of files and line numbers which a user may choose from
in order to list a function which was specified ambiguously (as
with `list classname::overloadedfuncname', for example). The
- vector in SALS provides the filenames and line numbers. */
+ vector in SALS provides the filenames and line numbers. FORMAT is
+ a printf-style format string used to tell the user what was
+ ambiguous. */
static void
-ambiguous_line_spec (struct symtabs_and_lines *sals)
+ambiguous_line_spec (struct symtabs_and_lines *sals, const char *format, ...)
{
int i;
+ va_list ap;
+ va_start (ap, format);
+ vprintf_filtered (format, ap);
+ va_end (ap);
+
for (i = 0; i < sals->nelts; ++i)
printf_filtered (_("file: \"%s\", line number: %d\n"),
symtab_to_filename_for_display (sals->sals[i].symtab),