From: Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs exited with message “X protocol error: BadPixmap”
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:41:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86odhbdv5l.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u7inzdxxv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon\, 13 Aug 2007 22\:41\:32 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
>> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:20:53 +0100
>> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>
>> Sorry, I'm not going to run Emacs under GDB indefinitely just on the
>> off chance Emacs will crash.
>
> Why not? As long as Emacs doesn't crash, you will not notice any
> difference in behavior or performance--GDB is simply invisible until
> there's some event that is noteworthy for the debugger.
I'm not going to run every program on my system under the debugger
forevermore on the off chance that the program might crash!
--
Joe
>> I depend on programs to leave core dump files when they crash.
>
> Debugging a core file has limitations that debugging a live program
> (even if it crashed) does not. Some of the GDB features do not work
> with core files.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-13 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-12 1:20 Emacs exited with message “X protocol error: BadPixmap” Joe Wells
2007-08-12 17:56 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-12 18:17 ` Joe Wells
2007-08-13 5:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-13 5:20 ` Joe Wells
2007-08-13 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-13 20:41 ` Joe Wells [this message]
2007-08-14 0:28 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-14 8:27 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-08-14 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-14 23:26 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-14 3:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-14 0:27 ` Richard Stallman
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