Re: Emacs carbon crash, and beginner question...

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Martin Fredriksson <m@rfc.se> writes:

> I just experienced a couple of crashes in Emacs carbon (current
> build). Just died, no message, nothing.  Yes, yes, I know this is a
> stupid thing to say to you all; I'm just setting the stage for
> following even lamer question:
>
> Is there a quick way to read up on how to get Emacs (particularly
> Carbon) to log more, run it in debug mode, or otherwise helpful
> things to get some more info about intermittent crash problems?
> Just knowing whether it was Emacs itself which decided to quit
> silently or if some OS function is the source of problem would be
> very useful.  I guess what I'm asking for is pointer to docs to
> read, tips, etc, with the goal of getting a quick start into more
> serious Emacs debugging.

You could try looking into the etc/DEBUG file.

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