Problems running gdb in emacs on Windows 8.1

[Jon TURNEY]

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.


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