https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190810 2006-09-26 Jan Kratochvil * remote.c (remote_wait): Suggestion on crash due to nonmatching target. (remote_async_wait): Likewise. Index: gdb-6.6/gdb/remote.c =================================================================== --- gdb-6.6.orig/gdb/remote.c 2007-01-20 06:43:04.000000000 +0100 +++ gdb-6.6/gdb/remote.c 2007-01-20 06:55:50.000000000 +0100 @@ -3111,8 +3111,13 @@ Packet: '%s'\n"), reg->regnum, regs); } + /* It may also occur on amd64 which defaults to 32-bit i386 + target. gdbserver(1) is not aware of the `set architecture' + name itself as it is not using libbfd. */ if (*p++ != ';') - error (_("Remote register badly formatted: %s\nhere: %s"), + error (_("Remote register badly formatted: %s\nhere: %s" + "\nTry to load the executable by `file' first," + "\nyou may also check `set/show architecture'."), buf, p); } } @@ -3307,8 +3312,13 @@ Packet: '%s'\n"), regcache_raw_supply (current_regcache, reg->regnum, regs); } + /* It may also occur on amd64 which defaults to 32-bit i386 + target. gdbserver(1) is not aware of the `set architecture' + name itself as it is not using libbfd. */ if (*p++ != ';') - error (_("Remote register badly formatted: %s\nhere: %s"), + error (_("Remote register badly formatted: %s\nhere: %s" + "\nTry to load the executable by `file' first," + "\nyou may also check `set/show architecture'."), buf, p); } }