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Re: Patch: Remove 'Dave' error message.
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Patch: Remove 'Dave' error message.
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:14:30 -0800
- CC: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Core Tools
- References: <200002150059.QAA02943@elmo.cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: shebs at apple dot com
Nick Clifton wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Well I am sorry to have to do this, but we have a customer who got
> very confused by the Dave error message in GDB and wanted to know
> what a "Dave" was...
>
> So here is a patch to fix it. This patch was originally developed
> by Mark Alexander back in February of last year, but it appears to
> have been lost in patch limbo.
>
> Is it OK to apply this patch ?
Sigh, another nail in the coffin... we could salvage a tiny bit of
coolness by letting the original message (with corrected wording)
appear under the right circumstances - for instance, only for
executables named "hal9000"...
Stan