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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 21:43:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tweearpg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86lgzqjcv2.fsf@realize.ch> (message from Alain Schneble on Sun,  21 Aug 2016 18:38:57 +0200)

> From: Alain Schneble <a.s@realize.ch>
> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:38:57 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> As an alternative, I could have put a breakpoint on a rarly called
> function such as Fredraw_display, as suggested in ./etc/DEBUG.  But
> that felt more like a workaround as well.

It's not a workaround, it's the real thing.

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.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-21 18:43 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 [this message]
2016-08-21 19:06       ` Alain Schneble
2016-08-21 19:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
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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