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Thu, 03 Feb 2022 02:28:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87tudghkef.fsf@athena.silentflame.com> (message from Sean Whitton on Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:19:04 -0700) 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:225846 Archived-At: > From: Sean Whitton > Cc: 53058@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:19:04 -0700 > > Hello, > > On Sat 08 Jan 2022 at 08:55am +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > The reasons for the problem in your case is not known: NILP should > > have worked, as did the comparison with Qnil. Until we understand why > > those didn't work, I don't see how we can say anything in etc/DEBUG > > that would both be useful and important/general enough to have there. > > > > My best advice is to try to understand why those conditions didn't > > work on your system. Maybe someone here knowns, or maybe you should > > ask on the GDB mailing list (gdb@sourceware.org). > > If I understand you correctly: we don't yet know exactly what was going > wrong on my machine when I tried to set the conditional break point, so > we lack a concrete case in which --enable-check-lisp-object-type > affected debugging with GDB, and we are thus not in a position to assert > in etc/DEBUG that --enable-check-lisp-object-type has the potential to > have an effect on debugging with gdb? Yes. > When you wrote that comparisons with structs are not guaranteed to work > with gdb, you were /not/ going as far as saying that comparisons with > structs are never expected to work (because that would imply that > --enable-check-lisp-object-type would often lead to issues when > debugging)? Yes. > If this summary is right, I think this bug should be closed. OK, closing.