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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs exited with message “X protocol error: BadPixmap”
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:07:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1we6eruy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86odhbdv5l.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> (message from Joe Wells on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:41:42 +0100)

> Cc: rms@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:41:42 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
> >> 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!

You just reiterated what you said before, but didn't explain why.  Can
you say why you don't like the idea?  I tried to point out that a
debugger will stay out of your way as long as the program runs
normally, so you should not see any ill effects.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-14  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-12  1:20 Emacs exited with message “X protocol error: BadPixmap” Joe Wells
2007-08-12 17:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-12 18:17   ` Joe Wells
2007-08-13  5:01     ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-13  5:20       ` Joe Wells
2007-08-13 19:41         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-13 20:41           ` Joe Wells
2007-08-14  0:28             ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-14  8:27               ` Kim F. Storm
2007-08-14 19:23                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-14 23:26                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-14  3:07             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-08-14  0:27         ` Richard Stallman

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