Re: Question on debugging emacs with gdb

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

 > > Start GDB from the Emacs's src directory.  There's a .gdbinit file
 > > there that takes care of this problem.  (The etc/DEBUG file actually
 > > tells you that as its first advice.)
 > 
 > 
 > As far as I can determine, my gdb instance is running with this
 > .gdbinit.
 > 
 > Heres gdb:s startup message:
 > 
 > GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.0post-0.20040223.19rh)
 > Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
 > you are
 > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
 > conditions.
 > Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
 > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
 > details.
 > This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu".

 > .gdbinit:22: Error in sourced command file:
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Start GDB with 'gdb emacs' not just 'gdb'. Then there should be no error,
GDB will read the rest of .gdbinit and C-g will be handled properly.

Nick


 > Then I do:
 > 
 > attach PID
 > 
 > all from different screen windows in a screen session running under ssh.