From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "D. Goel" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: can't do 'gdb emacs' Date: 11 Jun 2002 14:51:07 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2427-Mon10Jun2002220631+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023821781 20624 127.0.0.1 (11 Jun 2002 18:56:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17HqoW-0005MX-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:56:20 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17HrBy-0006lP-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:20:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HqmR-0003tG-00; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from phys-mail1.physics.umd.edu ([129.2.42.15]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Hqja-0003cz-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:51:14 -0400 Original-Received: from student1.physics.umd.edu (root@student1.physics.umd.edu [129.2.172.16]) by phys-mail1.physics.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g5BIp8A11725; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:51:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from student1.physics.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by student1.physics.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA17953; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:51:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from deego@localhost) by student1.physics.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA03170; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:51:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: student1.physics.umd.edu: deego set sender to deego@glue.umd.edu using -f Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <2427-Mon10Jun2002220631+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4756 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4756 >>>>> <<<< > > From: "D. Goel" > > Date: 10 Jun 2002 14:20:26 -0400 > > > > | (gdb) set args -q -nw -no-site-file > > | (gdb) run > > | Starting program: /home/dgoel/pub/usr/local/bin/emacs-21.2.90 -q -nw -no-site-file > > | procfs: init_inferior, get_traced_signals line 4745, /proc/24209: Value too large for defined data type. Eli suggested > > Sounds like some incompatibility between Emacs and GDB. For example, > can it be that GDB doesn't support 64-bit executables, while Emacs > was built as a 64-bit program? I just learnt about the 'file' command and did a 'file' on both gdb and emacs-21.2.90. they both result in: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped (this is on a SunOS 5.7 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW, UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine) any more hints? Thanks DG --