From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gdbui hang Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:49:32 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040511124932.GA2459@fencepost> References: <16543.48205.566122.924505@nick.uklinux.net> <87ekpsrvvh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <16543.52509.961888.971742@nick.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084281939 7443 80.91.224.253 (11 May 2004 13:25:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:25:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 11 15:25:30 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNXGE-0004kv-00 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 15:25:30 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNXG8-0004UT-00 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 15:25:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNWum-0006vj-7R for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 09:03:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNWol-0005WU-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 08:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNWoD-0005Kg-7R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 08:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNWhU-00046E-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 08:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BNWhQ-00012k-1l; Tue, 11 May 2004 08:49:32 -0400 Original-To: Nick Roberts Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16543.52509.961888.971742@nick.uklinux.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23139 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23139 On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 07:42:37PM +0100, Nick Roberts wrote: > If GDB developers add new and undocumented annotations then it makes matters > difficult. I will ask them not to do this and perheps this new annotation > could be backed out in an imminent respin of GDB (6.1.1). Is it not possible to at least deal more gracefully with such situations? The new gdbui mode seems to get wedged in these unrecoverable states way too often, and seems way too fragile... (with traditional gdb mode, hitting C-g a few times and then C-c C-c a few times was usually enough to get you back into some known state). -Miles -- Any man who is a triangle, has thee right, when in Cartesian Space, to have angles, which when summed, come to know more, nor no less, than nine score degrees, should he so wish. [TEMPLE OV THEE LEMUR]