Re: gdb broken inside emacs (again? still?)

[Ryan Johnson <ryan dot johnson at cs dot utoronto dot ca>]

On 09/11/2011 5:32 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/9/2011 4:44 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> > Debugging anything within emacs is thus completely impossible at this 
> > time.
>
> cgf has already stated that this will be fixed in the next release of 
> gdb; see
>
>   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-10/msg00564.html
Sorry, must have missed that one. Thanks for pointing me at it.

> In the meantime, can't you use gdb 7.3.50-1?  If you also have 
> problems with that release, please send detailed instructions for 
> reproducing the problem (starting with emacs -Q).
No luck:

$ cygcheck -cd | grep gdb
gdb                         7.3.50-1
libgdbm4                    1.8.3-20
$ emacs -Q -nw
M-x gdb
Run gdb (like this): gdb
(gdb) quit
... long time passes...
 C-c C-cQuit
(gdb) ^D
Debugger finished

> P.S. If you're building your own emacs and using a Cygwin snapshot, 
> you'll need to apply my patch to fix the memory allocation problem 
> that we discussed a few months ago.  You can get this by using 
> setup.exe to download the source for emacs-23.3-3.
That would explain why emacs-bootstrap.exe keeps hanging. I'll try 
building from the patched source tree and see what happens.

Ryan


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