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> From: seb@k-7.ch (Sébastien Gendre)
> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 17:13:01 +0100
> 
> I can start gdb (M-x gdb) on an executable I compiled with the -g flag.
> But after I set a breakpoint from the gdb repl, the begining of the source code is printed at the gdb repl again, and again, and again.
> Like Emacs is trapped on an infinite loop. After some seconds Emacs freeze.

Please tell on what OS is that, and where did you the GDB binary you
are using in this case.