From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GDB debugger mode for Emacs in ELPA Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:11:58 +1200 Message-ID: <18531.5902.104072.300466@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <181896.49649.qm@web95014.mail.in2.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214455233 18121 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2008 04:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:40:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: filerz-emacs@yahoo.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 26 06:41:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KBjIJ-0006iZ-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46262 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBjHT-0006Lo-BB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:40:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBjHO-0006Kc-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBjHM-0006ID-PA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53608 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBjHM-0006I3-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.25]:53225) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KBjHM-00017Y-8f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (222.30.255.123.static.snap.net.nz [123.255.30.222]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938E83DA374; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:12:01 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B8DBC8FC6D; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:11:58 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <181896.49649.qm@web95014.mail.in2.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.50.3 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:99952 Archived-At: > I started off the process of installing ELPA, it was real nice and simple. I > then tried installing gdb-mi package started getting a repeatable crash in > emacs. The crash is happening in some ralloc.c. The initial downloading > works, I feel it is in extracting the archive and manipulating it in emacs > that is causing the problem. Let me try the same with a MinGW build. > > I am using Emacs from GIT HEAD on M$-XP build using VS 2003 with image > support. > > Stack trace follows: > > ntdll.dll!7c901230() > > emacs.exe!w32_abort() Line 8194 C > emacs.exe!r_re_alloc() Line 1030 C >... That looks like a problem with Emacs, not the package. Assuming that you are using GDB, what do you get if you type xbacktrace in the console? (This is a user defined command in .gdbinit which gives a backtrace of Lisp function calls.) -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob