From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Wells Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs exited with message =?utf-8?b?4oCcWA==?= protocol error: =?utf-8?b?QmFkUGl4bWFw4oCd?= Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:41:42 +0100 Message-ID: <86odhbdv5l.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> References: <86odhdh7ke.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86y7ggfwhx.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86ps1sf1sa.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187037721 2252 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2007 20:42:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:42:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 13 22:41:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IKgjZ-0007gw-Re for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:41:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKgjZ-0000ZU-ES for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:41:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKgjW-0000Yo-2m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKgjU-0000YC-BU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKgjU-0000Y8-79 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from izanami.macs.hw.ac.uk ([137.195.13.6]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IKgjQ-0001JR-7u; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from lxultra1.macs.hw.ac.uk ([137.195.27.173]:44849 helo=127.0.0.1) by izanami.macs.hw.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.51) id 1IKgjO-0001KT-O0; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:41:42 +0100 Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 12737 invoked by uid 1001); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:41:42 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon\, 13 Aug 2007 22\:41\:32 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16344 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Joe Wells >> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:20:53 +0100 >> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> >> Sorry, I'm not going to run Emacs under GDB indefinitely just on the >> off chance Emacs will crash. > > Why not? As long as Emacs doesn't crash, you will not notice any > difference in behavior or performance--GDB is simply invisible until > there's some event that is noteworthy for the debugger. I'm not going to run every program on my system under the debugger forevermore on the off chance that the program might crash! -- Joe >> I depend on programs to leave core dump files when they crash. > > Debugging a core file has limitations that debugging a live program > (even if it crashed) does not. Some of the GDB features do not work > with core files.