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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gdb
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:27:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NzNnp-0002QL-S3@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1270610656.2491.17.camel@abs1> (message from belnac on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:24:16 +0000)

> From: belnac <belnac1@googlemail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:24:16 +0000
> 
> I've been following this particular thread with much interest and would
> like to take the opportunity to ask the experts why it is a good idea to
> run Emacs under GDB?

etc/DEBUG explains that:

    ** It is a good idea to run Emacs under GDB (or some other suitable
    debugger) *all the time*.  Then, when Emacs crashes, you will be able
    to debug the live process, not just a core dump.  (This is especially
    important on systems which don't support core files, and instead print
    just the registers and some stack addresses.)

(MS-Windows is one system that does not support core files, btw.)




  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-07  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-06 22:08 gdb Sean Sieger
2010-04-07  3:17 ` gdb Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-07  3:24   ` gdb belnac
2010-04-07  5:27     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-04-07  9:32   ` gdb Sean Sieger

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