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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts)
Cc: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GDB on Mac is (NOT) Broken
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:13:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy6hj970p.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19367.55595.93850.907520@totara.tehura.co.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:55:07 +1300")

>> > How is it unsafe?
>> It changes the set of commands passed between Emacs and GDB, so it's not
>> obviously "safe" (in the sense of "cannot introduce a change in behavior").
> On platforms other than Apple's behaviour is unchanged: there is no match in
> gdb-apple-test and it does nothing.

How do you know that sending a command like "server show version" will
never have any effect at all neither on the GDB process nor on the Emacs
state nor on the synchronization between the two?
The things we've seen in the Emacs<->GDB interaction make me very
suspicious of such things.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-23  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-15  6:23 GDB on Mac is (NOT) Broken Nick Roberts
2010-03-15 16:39 ` Chad Brown
2010-03-15 20:17   ` Nick Roberts
2010-03-16  0:18 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-03-16  2:59   ` Steve Revilak
2010-03-16  5:27   ` Nick Roberts
2010-03-16  8:55     ` Chad Brown
2010-03-16 21:00       ` Nick Roberts
2010-03-20  4:10     ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-03-21  6:50       ` Nick Roberts
2010-03-22  1:29         ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-03-22  2:32           ` Nick Roberts
2010-03-22  2:46         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-22  3:04           ` Nick Roberts
2010-03-22 13:43             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-22 20:55               ` Nick Roberts
2010-03-23  1:13                 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-03-23  1:55                   ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-03-23  2:38                     ` Nick Roberts
2010-03-23  3:12                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-26  9:02                     ` Nick Roberts
2010-03-26 20:20                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-27  1:00                       ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-03-17 13:30   ` Leo
2010-03-20 19:45   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-21  4:43     ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
     [not found] <20100314185409.00EDD9B718@mxperim5.sea5.speakeasy.net>
2010-03-15  2:43 ` Steve Revilak
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-03-14  0:32 Nick Roberts
2010-03-14 19:45 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen

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