From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 1077@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1077: bug#670: bug#1077: 23.0.60; x-create-frame: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:26:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9F24875655894485A414CD785D95725B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1PMbZk-00012j-Cm@fencepost.gnu.org>
> > No, I cannot install GDB, but if you point me to a Windows
> > binary for it I will be glad to try that.
>
> Installing a Windows binary is what I meant. You can find it here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/BaseSystem/G
> DB/GDB-7.2/gdb-7.2-1-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma/download
We must have different notions of using a Windows binary, and perhaps of a
Windows binary. ;-) (just kidding)
That link let me download a file `gdb-7.2-1-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma'.
I have no idea what to do with such a file (LZMA). On Windows (you've heard of
that, right Eli? - still kidding), _users_ typically download a setup.exe file
(zip that contains one), and then double-click that to launch an installer.
> Let me know once you have it installed.
Let me know whether the downloaded file gives me a Windows binary, and if so how
to use it.
> > (I also get multiple crashes per day for the latest dev builds
>
> It would be good to know a recipe for that. If that's impossible,
> perhaps after installing GDB you will be able to provide more info.
That's why I mentioned it in this context. (I don't have a recipe.)
> > why does the question asking whether I want to debug with GDB have
> > `Yes' as the default value if I don't have GDB installed?
>
> Because it doesn't check whether GDB is available. Feel free to
> submit a bug report about that.
Done - bug #7507.
> > `Yes' => `Send Error Report' or `Don't Send'.)
>
> That's the default Windows GIT debugger in action. You can download
> and install DrMinGW, a JIT debugger that knows about MinGW, from here:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/DrMingw
>
> and then, if you answer NO, you will get a meaningful C-level
> backtrace that you can save to a text file and attach to a mail
> message.
I'll just use the GDB binary instead, if available.
> No, C code cannot signal a Lisp error from native C comparisons with <
> or >. It must be some Lisp code, called directly or indirectly by
> x-create-frame.
Good to know.
Then why doesn't the Lisp debugger have a stack frame for the Lisp function that
called `<'? I assume you're saying that C calls some Lisp function _besides_
the Lisp function `<'. Why doesn't that function appear in the backtrace?
Is this another Emacs bug you'd like me to file? (Still kidding, but ready to
file it, if you think that's a good idea.)
> > runemacs.exe -Q --debug-init -l "hexrgb.el" -l
> "oneonone.el" -f "1on1-emacs"
> >
> > 3. M-: (add-to-list 'load-path ".")
> >
> > 4. M-x load-library icicles
> >
> > 5. M-x icy-mode
> >
> > 6. M-: (setq debug-on-error t)
> >
> > 7. C-h f f o r w TAB down down C-M-down
>
> What is C-M-down? On my Windows box I don't get any key event if I
> press and hold Alt+Ctrl and type the down-arrow key.
Sorry, I meant `end' (the End key), not `down' (down arrow key).
Alternatively, you can use `S-TAB next next C-M-next C-M-next...'. That's the
Page Down key. (I had written that originally, but (mis-)edited it to TAB and
down.)
(Actually, `C-M-down' should also work here, but I did mean `C-M-end'.)
Sorry for the recipe mistake. But I don't think that was your problem - see
below.
> Are you sure that the exact Lisp files downloaded from the
> links you posted reproduce the problem on your machine?
> Maybe you have modified versions of them.
I'm sure. I copied the files to a new directory, and created a Windows shortcut
to open in that directory, before following the recipe.
I just tried it all again, since I modified icicles-mcmd.el slightly yesterday
(no relation to this bug). Just so we're on the same page going forward, it
might be better if you would please download `icicles-mcmd.el' again, before
trying the recipe again.
I have never seen such a backtrace as you show. However, trying now and _not_
doing step #5 gives me such a backtrace. That's vanilla Emacs behavior, not
Icicles. In vanilla Emacs, even in the minibuffer keymaps, the `down' key is
bound to `down-list'. You are asking Emacs to go down a list but there is no
list in the minibuffer: the minibuffer input is just a function name.
I suspect that you just forgot step #5: Enter Icicle minor mode using
`icy-mode'. If you do not see the lighter `Icy' in the mode line, then you are
not in Icicle mode.
Thanks for your help, Eli.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-28 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-03 17:22 bug#1077: 23.0.60; x-create-frame: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) Drew Adams
2008-10-04 16:38 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-22 16:46 ` bug#670: " Drew Adams
2009-10-06 16:19 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-27 2:52 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-27 8:22 ` bug#1077: " Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-27 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-27 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-27 23:32 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-28 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-28 9:50 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-28 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-28 14:12 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-28 17:29 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-28 17:26 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-11-28 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-28 18:42 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-28 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-28 22:38 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-28 20:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-28 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-28 19:46 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-28 20:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-29 10:56 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-29 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-29 20:14 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-29 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-29 21:33 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-30 4:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-30 7:56 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-30 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-30 14:01 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-30 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-30 15:56 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-30 17:07 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-30 17:57 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-30 19:49 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-30 20:16 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-30 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-30 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-30 19:16 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-30 17:05 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-30 17:57 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-30 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-30 19:50 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-30 20:18 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-01 9:58 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-01 15:13 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-01 17:28 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-01 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-30 19:49 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-30 20:17 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-30 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-01 9:58 ` martin rudalics
2010-12-01 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-01 15:05 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-11-30 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-30 15:42 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-30 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-30 19:16 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-09 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-01 15:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-01 17:27 ` martin rudalics
2010-11-30 20:21 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-30 21:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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