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From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to debug modification to a variable value?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:26:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sk9swr1y.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27324834.post@talk.nabble.com> (alin s.'s message of "Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:52:23 -0800 (PST)")

"alin.s" <alinsoar@voila.fr> writes:

> I suggest you to use the WATCH in gdb for modifications of the
> variable, AWATCH for reading of the variable, etc.
>
> To detect the location of the variable is easy: install a breakpoint
> in make-variable-buffer-local that stops when exactly the variable you
> are interested about is set, then see there the location of
> tg-schema-alist.  Afterward you can use the x* functions from .gdbinit
> of emacs to debug your problem...

Thanks for that explanation.  I'll try that out as soon as I find some
time.  And also thanks for volunteering on implementing a debug facility
for cases like that.

Bye,
Tassilo




  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-26 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-25 20:52 How to debug modification to a variable value? Tassilo Horn
2010-01-25 21:08 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-26  8:00   ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-26 15:17     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-26 16:49       ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-26 21:02         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-26 18:02       ` alin.s
2010-01-27  7:37     ` Andreas Roehler
2010-01-27  8:24       ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-27  8:51         ` Andreas Roehler
2010-01-25 22:30 ` Davis Herring
2010-01-26  8:43   ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-26 21:04     ` Davis Herring
2010-01-27  7:50       ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-27 15:42         ` Davis Herring
2010-01-26 15:52 ` alin.s
2010-01-26 20:26   ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2010-01-27  8:13     ` alin.s

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