Re: emacs locked when internet connection is cut... [+ help-gnu-emacs: Invalid read syntax: ")" ]

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>]

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> On May 8, 2018, at 11:32, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 09:43:56 +0900
>> 
>> Put a breakpoint in Fsignal, and when it reports this error, show the backtrace.
>> 
>> When I check the emacs manual, the only reference to Fsignal is:
>> 
>> "To make Lisp errors stop Emacs and return to GDB, put a breakpoint at Fsignal."
>> 
>> Also, there is no reference to Fsignal in the GDB manual.
> 
>  $ cd /path/to/emacs/src
>  $ gdb ./emacs
>  ...
>  (gdb) break Fsignal
>  (gdb) commands
>> pp errror_symbol
>> end
>  (gdb) run
>  Thread 1 hit Breakpoint 3, Fsignal (error_symbol=XIL(0x108b0),
>      data=XIL(0xc000000001976940)) at eval.c:1514
>  1514      signal_or_quit (error_symbol, data, false);
>  void-variable
>  (gdb) continue
> 
> Keep typing "continue" until error_symbol is invalid_syntax.  Then:
> 
>  (gdb) bt
> 
> OK?

Thank you for the instructions. I'm on it.

Jean-Christophe Helary
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