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[binutils-gdb] Improve error message for MPX bound table examinations.
- From: Walfred Tedeschi <wtedeschi at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-cvs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 4 Nov 2015 10:10:51 -0000
- Subject: [binutils-gdb] Improve error message for MPX bound table examinations.
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=e00b3c9bc1cb8f0ce1ee39f07d7a216ab12c3064
commit e00b3c9bc1cb8f0ce1ee39f07d7a216ab12c3064
Author: Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
Date: Wed Nov 4 11:09:02 2015 +0100
Improve error message for MPX bound table examinations.
Error was introduced to fix a build issue caused by a mismatching variable
size. The error message is changed to explicitly report what goes wrong
and how user might still investigate the issue.
2015-06-18 Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
* i386-tdep.c (i386_mpx_get_bt_entry) Improves error message.
Change-Id: I6e9c7475eba663f49bd8e720b84ad0265bcb0e92
Signed-off-by: Walfred Tedeschi <walfred.tedeschi@intel.com>
Diff:
---
gdb/i386-tdep.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gdb/i386-tdep.c b/gdb/i386-tdep.c
index e83f49f..ebb21fc 100644
--- a/gdb/i386-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/i386-tdep.c
@@ -8694,7 +8694,8 @@ i386_mpx_get_bt_entry (CORE_ADDR ptr, CORE_ADDR bd_base)
bt_mask = (CORE_ADDR) MPX_BT_MASK;
if ( sizeof (CORE_ADDR) == 4)
- error (_("operation not supported"));
+ error (_("bound table examination not supported\
+ for 64-bit process with 32-bit GDB"));
}
else
{