From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: lockywolf@gmail.com
Cc: 40271@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40271: 26.3; gdb-mode fails to initialize if the target executable is built without symbols
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:30:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k1347jc3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mu807k7k.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:11:27 +0300)
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:11:27 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 40271@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > From: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 19:51:40 +0800
> >
> > The way to reproduce would be the following:
> > 1)printf "program main\nend" > test.f90
> > 2)gfortran test.f90
> > 3)emacs -q
> > 4)M-: (setq gdb-many-windows t) RET
> > 5)gdb RET a.out RET
> >
> > Observe that gdb-mode fails to initialize.
>
> I cannot reproduce this on my system, debugging one of the programs in
> the public /usr/bin/ directory (which are all stripped of the
> debugging symbols).
>
> > This happens because in gdb-mi.el.gz, line 4689, gdb-main-file gets
> > a completely unrelated .S file name relative to the directory where
> > distro authors compile glibc.
>
> Please show all the related details (what regexp search fails, what
> does it find, and what it ought to find instead), since otherwise it
> will be very hard to fix this problem.
Also, if you start GDB from the shell prompt, like this:
$ gdb -i=mi ./a.out
and then issue the -file-list-exec-source-file command, what do you
see?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-28 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-28 11:51 bug#40271: 26.3; gdb-mode fails to initialize if the target executable is built without symbols Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-03-28 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-28 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <CA+A2iZYfyhxWyJmNdGVm-4rxhVGXZD3zCU3kvCzU7uynxXxKQQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-03-28 12:39 ` bug#40271: Fwd: " Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-03-28 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-28 13:26 ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-03-28 13:27 ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-03-28 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-31 18:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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