Re: Improve GDB's first user experience by reducing "print_gdb_version" output

Eli Zaretskii via Gdb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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.
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