From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gdb --args does not work in emacs/src ...
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:09:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802111709.m1BH9mrX004400@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmyq71lmx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:53:07 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> >> > ... because .gdbinit overwrites args:
> >> >
> >> > set args -geometry 80x40+0+0
> >> >
> >> > this is annoying when one wants to start the debugger with specific
> >> > arguments on the command line.
> >>
> >> I guess it guarantees that everyone is debugging Emacs under more similar
> >> conditions. You can always comment that line out in your version.
>
> > Sure I've been doing that for a long time, but it would be even better
> > if I didn't have to do it.
>
> > Is it possible to append to args?
> > Or maybe only set it if it's not already set?
>
> I always specify the args directly to the "run" command, so the "set
That's a habit that precedes the availability of gdb --args...
> args" is only problematic when I want to run Emacs without any argument
> which is rare when debugging.
Not so rare when you use gdb --args, which is all the time for me nowadays.
It's very convenient to just prepend gdb --args to the command you want
to debug (which is probably already available in the shell command
history) and not have to worry about passing arguments to "run"...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-11 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-11 6:32 gdb --args does not work in emacs/src Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-11 7:56 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-11 15:21 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-11 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-11 17:09 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-02-11 16:59 ` Tom Tromey
2008-02-11 19:51 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-15 22:43 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-15 22:58 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-17 13:22 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-17 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-17 15:01 ` David Kastrup
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