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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 53058@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53058: etc/DEBUG could say more about --enable-check-lisp-object-type
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2022 16:46:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8ywbf73.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83iluw7hgc.fsf@gnu.org>

Hello,

On Thu 06 Jan 2022 at 10:11PM +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
>> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2022 11:20:19 -0700
>>
>> > Comparisons with structures, like foo == Qnil, aren't guaranteed to
>> > work in GDB.  --enable-check-lisp-object-type makes Lisp objects be
>> > structures rather than simple scalar values.
>>
>> Thanks -- how about the attached?
>
> Thanks, but the text there is inaccurate: NILP should still work with
> structures, only == comparison probably won't.
>
> I'm actually not sure we should describe such subtleties in etc/DEBUG.

Fair -- what do you think about just saying that certain gdb features
might not work, so one thing that you can try is to drop the flag?  The
claim that it doesn't affect debugging at all is what threw me off
recently, so that's the thing I'd really like to improve, I guess.

-- 
Sean Whitton





  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-06 23:46 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
     [not found]           ` <87pmpbm8j2.fsf@melete.silentflame.com>
     [not found]             ` <83v8z2eizk.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]               ` <87pmp9wyo3.fsf@melete.silentflame.com>
     [not found]                 ` <83r19pc8ax.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]                   ` <87v8yzb1v7.fsf@melete.silentflame.com>
     [not found]                     ` <83v8yy9ybv.fsf@gnu.org>
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 [this message]
2022-01-07  6:58                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-07 20:41                               ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-08  6:55                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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