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authorSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>2017-09-05 16:43:07 +0200
committerSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>2017-09-05 17:45:55 +0200
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Improve "'g' reply is is to long" error message
... by adding the expected size, and the received size. I found this useful when debugging gdbarch/remote issues, since it gives a hint of what gdb expects and what the remote sent. gdb/ChangeLog: * remote.c (process_g_packet): Update error message.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--gdb/remote.c3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 5eef1c9..25310e7 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2017-09-05 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
+
+ * remote.c (process_g_packet): Update error message.
+
2017-09-01 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
PR gdb/22046
diff --git a/gdb/remote.c b/gdb/remote.c
index 694897d..a667b0c 100644
--- a/gdb/remote.c
+++ b/gdb/remote.c
@@ -7583,7 +7583,8 @@ process_g_packet (struct regcache *regcache)
/* Further sanity checks, with knowledge of the architecture. */
if (buf_len > 2 * rsa->sizeof_g_packet)
- error (_("Remote 'g' packet reply is too long: %s"), rs->buf);
+ error (_("Remote 'g' packet reply is too long (expected %ld bytes, got %d "
+ "bytes): %s"), rsa->sizeof_g_packet, buf_len / 2, rs->buf);
/* Save the size of the packet sent to us by the target. It is used
as a heuristic when determining the max size of packets that the