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> From: "D. Goel" <deego@glue.umd.edu>
> 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.

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?

In any case, there's nothing wrong with the commands you typed,
AFAICS.