From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Running gdb in emacs. Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:09:03 +0200 Message-ID: <83sgkf30c0.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="8511"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 16:10:41 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1is6n9-0001yb-HR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:10:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43658 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1is6n8-0001wO-A7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:10:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59141) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1is6lL-0007yw-SH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:08:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57846) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1is6lL-0007FP-L9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:08:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3101 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1is6lK-0004zi-4Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:08:46 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from aprekates on Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:27:03 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122230 Archived-At: > From: aprekates > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:27:03 +0200 > > I found those two basic ways to start gdb in emacs: > > 1.  M-x gdb > > 2.  M-x gud-gdb > > In the first case i pass the  --interpreter=mi option to enable the > gdb-mi and i can use various other windows like stackframes, registers , > output etc. > > In the second case i have only the source and a gdb window in user > interface. If i give  --interpreter=mi after M-x gud-gdb i get only a > gdb windows which seems to work in machine mode. > > So i dont understand what is the proposed use case of using M-x gud-gdb > since it seems it offers a basic debugging enviroment. "M-x gud-gdb" is the old way of running GDB under Emacs. It relies on a GDB feature, called "annotations", which is deprecated by the GDB developers, and could be removed from GDB at any moment. "M-x gdb" with all its features was written to be the main method of running GDB from Emacs. We suggest that you use only "M-x gdb", unless you have a very good reason, like some version of GDB that doesn't support the mi interface well. > Also M-x gdb does it use GUD? I don't think I understand what you are asking. Please elaborate.