Warn if add-symbol-file does not provide any symbols

A user suggested that add-symbol-file ought to warn if the file does
not in fact provide any symbols.  This seemed like a decent idea, so
this patch implements this idea.

Tested on x86-64 Fedora 29.

gdb/ChangeLog
2019-06-14  Tom Tromey  <tromey@adacore.com>

	* symfile.c (add_symbol_file_command): Remove obsolete comment.
	Warn if symbol file does not provide any symbols.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2019-06-14  Tom Tromey  <tromey@adacore.com>

	* gdb.base/symfile-warn.exp: New file.
	* gdb.base/symfile-warn.c: New file.

3 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 4d89669..74e6741 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2019-06-14  Tom Tromey  <tromey@adacore.com>
 
+	* gdb.base/symfile-warn.exp: New file.
+	* gdb.base/symfile-warn.c: New file.
+
+2019-06-14  Tom Tromey  <tromey@adacore.com>
+
 	* gdb.base/annotate-symlink.exp: New file.
 
 2019-06-14  Tom Tromey  <tromey@adacore.com>
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/symfile-warn.c b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/symfile-warn.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..38fdd67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/symfile-warn.c
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/* This testcase is part of GDB, the GNU debugger.
+
+   Copyright 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+/* Empty.  */
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/symfile-warn.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/symfile-warn.exp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1fd9618
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/symfile-warn.exp
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Copyright 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+standard_testfile .c
+set ofile [standard_output_file ${testfile}.o]
+
+if {[gdb_compile "${srcdir}/${subdir}/${srcfile}" \
+	 $ofile object {debug}] != ""} {
+    untested "failed to compile"
+    return -1
+}
+
+clean_restart
+
+gdb_test "add-symbol-file $ofile 0" \
+    "Reading symbols from .*warning: newly-added symbol file.*does not provide any symbols" \
+    "add-symbol-file" \
+    "add symbol table from file \".*\" at.*\\(y or n\\) " "y"