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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:37:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzlpol5l6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8663sdgu1p.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:48:34 +0200
> 
> Well, the whole difference between exit (or maybe _exit?) and abort is
> the core dump, and that is why abort rather than exit is also called on
> failed assertions.  So debugging is the whole point of abort and
> declaring it in a way that precludes debugging is a bit pointless.

And even if they disagree about this, GCC and glibc could have behaved
differently under -g.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-14  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-13 15:02 Post-mortem debugging and abort David Kastrup
2008-06-13 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-13 16:48   ` David Kastrup
2008-06-13 17:12     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-13 19:48       ` David Kastrup
2008-06-14 15:22         ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-14 16:08           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-14 21:20             ` David Kastrup
2008-06-14 23:59               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-15 17:55             ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-14  9:37     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-06-14 21:13       ` David Kastrup
2008-06-14 15:21     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-13 17:04   ` Tom Tromey
2008-06-13 19:50     ` David Kastrup
2008-06-14  9:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-14 14:11       ` Tom Tromey

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