From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: building NTEmacs Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:47:09 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030221172352.73A8.LEKTU@terra.es> <1046896317.3e665ebdb7657@webmail.freedom2surf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046897363 406 80.91.224.249 (5 Mar 2003 20:49:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 21:49:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qfp2-0008WL-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 21:49:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18qg92-0001ng-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 22:09:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qfpJ-0007yk-05 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:49:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qfp1-0007tr-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qfoi-0007ej-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:48:47 -0500 Original-Received: from stlport.com ([64.39.31.56]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qfnM-00073M-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:47:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [146.115.123.43] (account dave HELO PENGUIN.boost-consulting.com) by stlport.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 206324; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:47:19 -0800 Original-To: jasonr@f2s.com In-Reply-To: <1046896317.3e665ebdb7657@webmail.freedom2surf.net> (jasonr@f2s.com's message of "Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:31:57 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12113 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12113 jasonr@f2s.com writes: >> What kind? The "emacs crashed; do you want to send a report to >> Microsoft?" window comes up. I click "no" instead of dropping into >> the debugger because I figure the build is surely optimized. > > It is possible to debug optimized code. Sometimes the lines don't quite > line up with what you expect, and you can't find out the values of some > variables easily, but generally debugging works. Emacs is always built > with debug symbols, so unless you have explicitly stripped them yourself > they will be there. OK, next time it crashes (if it crashes) I will post a backtrace. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com