From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: 53058-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53058: etc/DEBUG could say more about --enable-check-lisp-object-type
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:28:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h79g5rym.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tudghkef.fsf@athena.silentflame.com> (message from Sean Whitton on Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:19:04 -0700)
> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Cc: 53058@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:19:04 -0700
>
> Hello,
>
> On Sat 08 Jan 2022 at 08:55am +02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > The reasons for the problem in your case is not known: NILP should
> > have worked, as did the comparison with Qnil. Until we understand why
> > those didn't work, I don't see how we can say anything in etc/DEBUG
> > that would both be useful and important/general enough to have there.
> >
> > My best advice is to try to understand why those conditions didn't
> > work on your system. Maybe someone here knowns, or maybe you should
> > ask on the GDB mailing list (gdb@sourceware.org).
>
> If I understand you correctly: we don't yet know exactly what was going
> wrong on my machine when I tried to set the conditional break point, so
> we lack a concrete case in which --enable-check-lisp-object-type
> affected debugging with GDB, and we are thus not in a position to assert
> in etc/DEBUG that --enable-check-lisp-object-type has the potential to
> have an effect on debugging with gdb?
Yes.
> When you wrote that comparisons with structs are not guaranteed to work
> with gdb, you were /not/ going as far as saying that comparisons with
> structs are never expected to work (because that would imply that
> --enable-check-lisp-object-type would often lead to issues when
> debugging)?
Yes.
> If this summary is right, I think this bug should be closed.
OK, closing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-03 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-30 5:28 bug#52888: 29.0.50; font_{delete_unmatched,score} do not handle nil FONT_WEIGHT_INDEX Sean Whitton
2021-12-30 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-30 17:13 ` Sean Whitton
2021-12-30 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-01 0:30 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-01 2:35 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-01 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-01 22:31 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-03 2:04 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-05 2:10 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-05 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-05 13:55 ` Robert Pluim
2022-01-05 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-06 5:41 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-06 12:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-06 18:10 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-12 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-12 21:41 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-13 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-01 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-01 21:49 ` Can't set conditional break point using AREF/NILP Sean Whitton
2022-01-02 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-02 22:38 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-03 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-04 21:57 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-05 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-06 18:20 ` bug#53058: etc/DEBUG could say more about --enable-check-lisp-object-type Sean Whitton
2022-01-06 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-06 23:46 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-07 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-07 20:41 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-08 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-03 0:19 ` Sean Whitton
2022-02-03 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-01-13 11:54 ` bug#52888: André Silva
2022-01-13 16:40 ` bug#52888: Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CANfyKeBjec0z2c33Fph1=ESr-4ACH0BNKXq_wW-Vtr6sEfJ_VA@mail.gmail.com>
2022-01-13 18:13 ` bug#52888: Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CANfyKeD2-sP4tO0dH0rbjbyD+rR+ahiDgBn+Pnx89EG1iKqiYg@mail.gmail.com>
2022-01-13 19:49 ` bug#52888: Eli Zaretskii
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