From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Debugging GNU Emacs on MS Windows / getting control back to gdb Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:43:07 +0300 Message-ID: <83tweearpg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86pop2je7e.fsf@realize.ch> <83wpjaayfs.fsf@gnu.org> <86lgzqjcv2.fsf@realize.ch> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471805051 21005 195.159.176.226 (21 Aug 2016 18:44:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alain Schneble Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 21 20:44:06 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bbXj2-00055F-HF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 20:44:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbXiz-0000cd-Sc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:44:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38961) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbXiG-0000b1-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:43:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbXiB-0000CY-2J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:43:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbXiA-0000CG-V1; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:43:10 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4637 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bbXi6-0006WU-BI; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:43:08 -0400 In-reply-to: <86lgzqjcv2.fsf@realize.ch> (message from Alain Schneble on Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:38:57 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206727 Archived-At: > From: Alain Schneble > 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.