From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40279: 26.3; Error: you did not specify -i=mi on GDB's command line! Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:09:23 +0200 Message-ID: <837drbe8i4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ft61134a.fsf@gnus.org> <87pn53zdkw.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14379"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 40279@debbugs.gnu.org, william.xwl@gmail.com To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 21:10:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kXVIJ-0003gT-Ro for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:10:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36088 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXVII-0005jm-OA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58336) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXVIA-0005jJ-JR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34458) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXVIA-0002BJ-9M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kXVIA-0006Si-34 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:10:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:10:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 40279 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 40279-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B40279.160382937424800 (code B ref 40279); Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 40279) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Oct 2020 20:09:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46004 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kXVHi-0006Rv-4v for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:09:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58034) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kXVHg-0006Rj-Th for 40279@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:09:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57703) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXVHb-00026B-M8; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4543 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kXVHa-0008KS-Sh; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:09:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87pn53zdkw.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:14:07 +0100) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:191781 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:14:07 +0100 > Cc: 40279@debbugs.gnu.org > > I tried looking at the VC logs to see what the point of the > inferior-tty-set command was, but the only mention I found was: > > (gdb-inferior-io--init-proc): Don't send "-inferior-tty" command > if the TTY name is nil or empty (which happens when communicating > with the inferior via pipes, e.g. on MS-Windows). > > Which just disables it on Windows? Yes. Because on Windows this is nothing but trouble. > Hm... it was introduced below, but doesn't really say why. > > commit f30d612a7a628828baa7c333629a10295605291b > Author: Chong Yidong > AuthorDate: Fri Apr 20 14:39:29 2012 +0800 > > And as far as I can tell, gdb runs just fine without it, even on > GNU/Linux? It is needed to redirect the I/O of the program being debugged into a separate buffer, so it doesn't get mixed with the interaction between the user and GDB. gdb-many-windows creates, among others, a buffer where the program's I/O is redirected.