[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-24.0.96-1 (TEST)

[Ken Brown]

On 5/3/2012 4:10 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 03/05/2012 10:45 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 5/2/2012 5:02 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>> On 02/05/2012 1:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>> The gdb-mi integration also seems to work reasonably well, with a few
>>> exceptions:
[...]
>> (This was fixed once and was a Cygwin bug, so I think it won't be hard
>> for me to resurrect my test case and get it fixed again.)

This is now fixed (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00084.html).

>>> One last note: I normally use emacs in terminal mode, but couldn't do
>>> that inside gdb (for obvious reasons). Some of the behaviors I observed
>>> before -- including seg faults -- may be terminal-specific, and some of
>>> the new strangeness I'm pointing out now may be X11-specific... or it
>>> might just be the difference between -O0 and -O2.
>>
>> What do you mean by "terminal mode"? Do you mean you run emacs under
>> mintty? Or do you run it under xterm with the -nw switch? And could
>> you elaborate on the "obvious reasons"? I don't see why you can't run
>> emacs in a terminal under gdb; or attach to it from a different
>> terminal if that's more convenient.
> I usually run under mintty with -nw. When following the instructions in
> that /etc/DEBUG file you pointed me at, the .gdbinit included
> breakpoints and other pre-main intializations to perform that would not
> happen if I merely attached to a running emacs. However, that will
> probably be my next attempt, since the X11 route didn't pan out (and I
> dislike using the graphical version).

I'm not sure why you're using the -nw switch when you start emacs in 
mintty.  As far as I can tell from the documentation, -nw shouldn't do 
anything if you're not running under X.  But it also shouldn't do any 
harm.  In any case, I still don't see why you can't run emacs under gdb 
in mintty:

$ cd emacs-24.0.95/src/
$ gdb ./emacs.exe
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.50.20111026-cvs (cygwin-special)
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-cygwin".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /tmp/emacs-24.0.95/src/emacs.exe...done.
SIGINT is used by the debugger.
Are you sure you want to change it? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from 
terminal]
Environment variable "DISPLAY" not defined.
TERM = xterm
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4ded26: file emacs.c, line 394.
Temporary breakpoint 2 at 0x4f8970: file sysdep.c, line 855.
(gdb) r -Q
[...]

Now if it crashes, won't you be returned to gdb where you can get a 
backtrace?

And attaching from another mintty also works; gdb processes the .gdbinit 
file just fine as long as you start gdb from the emacs src directory:

$ gdb --pid=13144
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.50.20111026-cvs (cygwin-special)
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-cygwin".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
Attaching to process 5672
[New Thread 5672.0xd24]
[New Thread 5672.0x2dec]
[New Thread 5672.0x2b08]
[New Thread 5672.0x13c0]
[New Thread 5672.0x2cd4]
[New Thread 5672.0x2de4]
[New Thread 5672.0x2818]
[New Thread 5672.0x33d0]
Reading symbols from /tmp/emacs-24.0.95/src/emacs.exe...done.
SIGINT is used by the debugger.
Are you sure you want to change it? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from 
terminal]
Environment variable "DISPLAY" not defined.
TERM = xterm
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4ded26: file emacs.c, line 394.
Temporary breakpoint 2 at 0x4f8970: file sysdep.c, line 855.
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Ken

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