Problems running gdb in emacs on Windows 8.1

[Ken Brown]

On 6/18/2015 8:09 AM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 17/06/2015 15:53, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm having numerous problems recently running gdb inside emacs (both
>>> -w32 and -X11):
>>
>> [...]
>>>
>>> All of these things used to work fine.  I'm not sure exactly when
>>> things changed, as I didn't update my Cygwin installation for quite a
>>> while.  My current installation has gdb 7.9.1-1 and emacs 24.5-1.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on what the problem might be and how to fix it would be
>>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>> gdb 7.9.1-1 is supposed to be marked as a test release, so I am not sure how
>> you come to be running it without explicitly asking for it.
>>
>> In any case, you might try downgrading to gdb 7.8-2 to see if that changes
>> anything.
>
> Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately, I was having the same problems
> with gdb 7.8-2 and installed the latest to see if it helped.  It
> didn't.

Can you give a detailed recipe for reproducing the problem (preferably 
starting from 'emacs -Q' and using gdb 7.8-2)?

Ken


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