From: Simon Marchi Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:43:07 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Improve "'g' reply is is to long" error message X-Git-Tag: gdb-8.0.1-release~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e72d662aba1bc92e141688ebb27f3948ec5d2997;p=thirdparty%2Fbinutils-gdb.git 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. --- diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 5eef1c93944..25310e7d1b6 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2017-09-05 Simon Marchi + + * remote.c (process_g_packet): Update error message. + 2017-09-01 Jan Kratochvil PR gdb/22046 diff --git a/gdb/remote.c b/gdb/remote.c index 694897df1d6..a667b0c75e6 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