From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to debug modification to a variable value?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:26:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sk9swr1y.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27324834.post@talk.nabble.com> (alin s.'s message of "Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:52:23 -0800 (PST)")
"alin.s" <alinsoar@voila.fr> writes:
> I suggest you to use the WATCH in gdb for modifications of the
> variable, AWATCH for reading of the variable, etc.
>
> To detect the location of the variable is easy: install a breakpoint
> in make-variable-buffer-local that stops when exactly the variable you
> are interested about is set, then see there the location of
> tg-schema-alist. Afterward you can use the x* functions from .gdbinit
> of emacs to debug your problem...
Thanks for that explanation. I'll try that out as soon as I find some
time. And also thanks for volunteering on implementing a debug facility
for cases like that.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-26 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-25 20:52 How to debug modification to a variable value? Tassilo Horn
2010-01-25 21:08 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-26 8:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-26 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-26 16:49 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-26 21:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-26 18:02 ` alin.s
2010-01-27 7:37 ` Andreas Roehler
2010-01-27 8:24 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-27 8:51 ` Andreas Roehler
2010-01-25 22:30 ` Davis Herring
2010-01-26 8:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-26 21:04 ` Davis Herring
2010-01-27 7:50 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-27 15:42 ` Davis Herring
2010-01-26 15:52 ` alin.s
2010-01-26 20:26 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2010-01-27 8:13 ` alin.s
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