Thanks for the quick reply!

2007/7/12, Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>:
>
> > Using Emacs 23.0.0.1 and GNU gdb 6.6-debian I have problems running gud.
>
> You don't say what platform you're using.  If you use M-x report-emacs-bug, it
> will give this detail and others about your configuration (and send to the
> appropriate mailing list - emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org)

Sorry for that; i just followed the bug reporting guidelines at
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/.  Here's what report-emacs-bug
said:
"
In GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.11)
 of 2007-07-06 on helios
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
configured using `configure  '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host'
'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib'
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.0/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.0/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.0/leim'
'--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--enable-font-backend'
'--with-xft' '--with-freetype' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu'
'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN
-DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: swedish
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
"

> > GDB produces the attached output.
>
> Does it fail with Emacs 22.1?

I'm having the same or very similar problems on Solaris / Sparc using
Emacs 22.1 and gdb-6.5.

> > Emacs fails to parse all the annotations and says things like:
> > "
> > error in process filter: gdb-display-source-buffer: Wrong type
> > argument: stringp, nil
> > error in process filter: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
> > "
>
> > It also fails to open the source code frame.
>
> Can you please evaluate
>
> (setq gdb-enable-debug t)
>
> do M-x gdb
>
> and start your application to generate the errors
>
> then post the value of gdb-debug-log to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.

Attached.  Since this (or something very similar) is a problem with
both 22.1 and 23.0.0.1 I'm posting to both bug lists.

  Regards //Johan