From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: 53058@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53058: etc/DEBUG could say more about --enable-check-lisp-object-type
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2022 08:55:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lezq4syx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o84nb7n3.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (message from Sean Whitton on Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:41:52 -0700)
> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Cc: 53058@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:41:52 -0700
>
> To me, conditionalising break points is a fundamental debugging action,
> something that a beginner is likely to want to do. And it's Emacs, so
> chances are those conditions will involve Lisp objects. So having
> instructions aimed at someone just getting started telling you to use a
> flag which makes that basic debugging action much less likely to work
> seems worth improving. Do you have any other ideas as to how that could
> be done?
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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-08 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-30 5:28 bug#52888: 29.0.50; font_{delete_unmatched,score} do not handle nil FONT_WEIGHT_INDEX Sean Whitton
2021-12-30 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-30 17:13 ` Sean Whitton
2021-12-30 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-01 0:30 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-01 2:35 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-01 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-01 22:31 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-03 2:04 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-05 2:10 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-05 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-05 13:55 ` Robert Pluim
2022-01-05 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-06 5:41 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-06 12:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-06 18:10 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-12 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-12 21:41 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-13 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-01 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2022-01-06 18:20 ` bug#53058: etc/DEBUG could say more about --enable-check-lisp-object-type Sean Whitton
2022-01-06 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-06 23:46 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-07 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-07 20:41 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-08 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-02-03 0:19 ` Sean Whitton
2022-02-03 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-13 11:54 ` bug#52888: André Silva
2022-01-13 16:40 ` bug#52888: Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CANfyKeBjec0z2c33Fph1=ESr-4ACH0BNKXq_wW-Vtr6sEfJ_VA@mail.gmail.com>
2022-01-13 18:13 ` bug#52888: Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CANfyKeD2-sP4tO0dH0rbjbyD+rR+ahiDgBn+Pnx89EG1iKqiYg@mail.gmail.com>
2022-01-13 19:49 ` bug#52888: Eli Zaretskii
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