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[venta]

Another one for the Daily WTF...

I'm trying to use the Eclipse debugger in a non-Java environment (suggestions like "don't" are sadly no help; I have to do so for work).

Today it offered the following advice to help me understand why my program will run, but will not connect itself to a GDB server for debugging:



Well, since you offer, Eclipse, I'd quite like the details. Maybe they'll help me understand the problem.

Comments

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler.

Um, no, I have nothing interesting to add!

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

That's funny. Probably not for you, right now, but it made me laugh.

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

I can help you with that. The problem is that the program is not a recognized executable.

(and when you ask for details, you get to travel back through time, but this may just be a pedantic person being pedantic about the order you take screenshots...)

[venta.livejournal.com]

I can help you with that. The problem is that the program is not a recognized executable.

Ah, right! Thanks, that clears things up no end. I wish the dialog box had told me.

a pedantic person

:P

I've seen this box multiple times, and I keep optimistically clicking the details button :) I originally took a screen shot, then decided it'd work better posted here with the no-details box as well, so took that one later.

So no time travel as yet, sadly.

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

I've never used the Eclipse debugger, but I'm pretty sure ringbark is right when he/she says that the problem is that the program is not a recognized executable.

If you look carefully, you'll see that that's what the details box is trying to tell you.

My favourite error message of all time was a Xenix one for a critical kernal panic which read something along the lines of "No idea, but feel free to phone Microsoft's technical support line."

[dmh.livejournal.com]

Yep, a classic issue in the program executability recognition department. Try checking if your program's wearing a fake nose and false moustache, that's a come cause of recognition problems. HTH.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

One detail, many details. I see its point now.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I know the fix for that. What you have to do is make the program be a recognized executable, and the error should go away.

(PS. Yay Emily Haines and her skeleton of softness! -- I like that album a lot.)

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

*ROFL*