From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alain Schneble <a.s@realize.ch>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Debugging GNU Emacs on MS Windows / getting control back to gdb
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:16:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oa4maq6b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86d1l2j60z.fsf@realize.ch> (message from Alain Schneble on Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:06:36 +0200)
> From: Alain Schneble <a.s@realize.ch>
> CC: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:06:36 +0200
>
> > And even that might not be enough for a frequently called function.
> > Then you need to make the breakpoint conditional on some input values,
> > or the value of point, or whatever else can filter out hits you don't
> > want.
>
> But that was exactly my point, that it is more cumbersome to setup a
> conditional breakpoint.
Nevertheless, it's frequently a necessity.
> Whereas with a process suspension, I only have to set an
> unconditional breakpoint and then continue execution. Of course,
> this works well only if I know that the next call to the function is
> the one call I'm interested in.
Exactly. And you can never know that in advance, not with functions
called frequently.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-21 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-21 16:09 Debugging GNU Emacs on MS Windows / getting control back to gdb Alain Schneble
2016-08-21 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-21 16:38 ` Alain Schneble
2016-08-21 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-21 19:06 ` Alain Schneble
2016-08-21 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-08-21 16:46 ` Alain Schneble
2016-08-21 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-21 19:08 ` Alain Schneble
2016-08-21 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-21 19:23 ` Alain Schneble
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