From 8abff0a346de0ced7bf7aeec20cd0ef816f677f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: smiley <mail@dmur.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 15:11:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] remove a workaround when fetching the gdb version

---
 pwndbg/commands/version.py | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pwndbg/commands/version.py b/pwndbg/commands/version.py
index 2a0f4850e..33582a40a 100644
--- a/pwndbg/commands/version.py
+++ b/pwndbg/commands/version.py
@@ -25,10 +25,7 @@ from pwndbg.commands import CommandCategory
 
 
 def _gdb_version():
-    try:
-        return gdb.VERSION  # GDB >= 8.1 (or earlier?)
-    except AttributeError:
-        return gdb.execute("show version", to_string=True).split("\n")[0]
+    return gdb.VERSION
 
 
 def _py_version():