Re: Improve GDB's first user experience by reducing "print_gdb_version" output
Eli Zaretskii via Gdb <[email protected]>
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> Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 09:33:09 +0200 > Cc: Guinevere Larsen <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > From: Phi Debian via Gdb <[email protected]> > > FWIW lldb produce nothing > > $ lldb ./hw > (lldb) target create "./hw" > Current executable set to '/tmp/hw' (x86_64). > (lldb) > > > One could argue LLVM series is not GNU yet GCC don't produce nothing either > (even with -v) Unlike GDB, GCC is not an interactive program, so it produces this information in the output of "gcc --version" and "gcc --help". > The proposed minimal greeting is nice, or can be push further with no > greeting at all (like lldb) assuming gdb --help or man gdb would be the > starting point leading to apropos... That'd be going too far, IMO.