From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: 3650@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3650: M-x gdb unusable on Windows
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 07:04:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhheg6fc.fsf@marxist.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A3F8EAC.5010009@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:01:16 +0800")
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
> Jason Rumney wrote:
>> Kenichi Handa wrote:
>>
>>> By the way, I also installed gdb-6.8-mingw-3.tar.bz2. But,
>>> with "M-x gdb", pp and pr commands doesn't work. They print
>>> nothing. They do work when gdb is invoked from command
>>> line. Do you know what is wrong?
>>>
>>
>> I've often had problems in the past using debuggers under Emacs on Windows
>> (under Emacs 21 and early 22 development versions though, so I haven't tried
>> the new gdb-ui extensively), so I always use the command line.
>
> I just tried it, and it seems to be even worse than I remembered.
>
> Problem 1 is that the default directory of gdb is the directory where the Emacs
> executable is even though I started it from the source directory and specified
> oo/i386/emacs.exe as the executable to debug. This means that .gdbinit needs to
> be "source"d in manually. In addition, gud is unable to find source files that
> are not already being visited:
>
> (gdb) break fontset_find_font
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x10f9dd7: file fontset.c, line 527.
> (gdb) list :1
> No source file named in loaded symbols.
>
>
> Problem 2 is that Emacs output (including the results of pp and pr) is
> redirected to a buffer entitled *input/output of emacs.exe*, or at least
> that is what the intention appears to be. That buffer is populated as follows
> when gdb starts, and never updates:
>
> c:\GnuWin32\bin\sleep.exe: cannot read realtime clock: Invalid argument
> Process gdb-inferior exited abnormally with code 1
>
> Problem 3 is that there appears to be a menu toggle for disabling this output
> redirection, but it does not function. Instead, I see this in *Messages*:
>
> Symbol's function definition is void: gdb-use-separate-io-buffer
>
>
> Problem 4 is that enabling GUD tooltips results messages like the following:
>
> error in process filter: Args out of range: "", 0, -1 [2 times]
>
>
> Problem 5 is the general slowness. This one is probably down to Windows poor
> subprocess and pipe support, but the rest seem to be real problems within
> gud/gdb-mi.
This was reported 10 years ago.
Is this still an issue on modern versions of Emacs?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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[not found] <4AAF9D6C.1040303@gnu.org>
2009-05-04 18:26 ` bug#3208: 23.0.93; Memory full / crash when displaying lots of characters from a large font (like Arial Unicode or Code2000) which is not explicitly selected (on Win32) Michael Schierl
2009-05-05 15:25 ` Jason Rumney
2009-05-05 15:46 ` Jason Rumney
2009-05-19 2:13 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-06-18 5:29 ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-22 5:47 ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-22 11:22 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-06-22 11:51 ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-22 12:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-06-22 13:05 ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-22 14:01 ` bug#3650: M-x gdb unusable on Windows Jason Rumney
2009-06-23 1:59 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-06-23 3:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-06-23 6:22 ` Nick Roberts
2009-06-23 7:38 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-06-23 6:09 ` Nick Roberts
2009-06-23 7:59 ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-23 13:22 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-06-23 17:08 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-06-25 5:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-06-25 6:13 ` Nick Roberts
2009-06-25 7:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2019-11-02 6:04 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-11-02 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-13 0:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2009-06-24 4:26 ` bug#3208: 23.0.93; Memory full / crash when displaying lots of characters from a large font (like Arial Unicode or Code2000) which is not explicitly selected (on Win32) Kenichi Handa
2009-06-24 10:37 ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-24 11:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-06-24 10:43 ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-24 11:55 ` Kenichi Handa
[not found] ` <4A422909.9060800@gnu.org>
2009-06-25 8:10 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-06-25 13:21 ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-26 1:26 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-06-26 5:54 ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-26 13:12 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-07-02 12:13 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-07-02 21:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-03 2:11 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-09-15 14:05 ` bug#3208: marked as done (23.0.93; Memory full / crash when displaying lots of characters from a large font (like Arial Unicode or Code2000) which is not explicitly selected (on Win32)) Emacs bug Tracking System
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