From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:12:23 +0200 Message-ID: <4852AA77.5050305@gmail.com> References: <86od65gyyr.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <8663sdgu1p.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213377181 5653 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2008 17:13:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:13:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 13 19:13:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K7CqN-0000Mj-4a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:13:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50034 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7CpY-000407-TM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:12:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7CpS-0003xs-La for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7CpR-0003xg-1y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:12:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50575 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7CpQ-0003xd-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:12:44 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:53008) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K7CpE-0005FO-FX; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:12:32 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:62057 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K7CpA-0005B8-4f; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:12:31 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <8663sdgu1p.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080613-0, 2008-06-13), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1K7CpA-0005B8-4f. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1K7CpA-0005B8-4f 3f907f0637b37bfbe04b98a835b5bacc X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:99129 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >>> From: David Kastrup >>> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:02:20 +0200 >>> >>> >>> I just wanted to report that the declaration of "abort" in glibc is not >>> going to be changed to be more compatible with debugging. >>> >>> shows my >>> report and its resolution. >> Sigh. I concluded a long time ago that it is useless to ask GCC and >> glibc developers to cater to debugging needs. At best, you are >> ignored; but more often you are flamed back into silence. > > I was a bit amused about "stop keeping to reopen". I reopened once, > giving detailed reasons and citing additional manpage data. When the > thing was basically closed without looking at the argument after a month > of silence. So it could not have been all that painful. > >> I'm sorry that you, David, wasted your effort as well on this. The discussion of the bug looked like a very difficult thing ;-) I do not understand the details, but the only thing that looked like a response at all was that UD said there was a workaround, "just add gcc flag". Just from the non-friendly tone I would expect this to be a half lie - half true. What did he mean and why does it not work as you would like it to?