debugging emacs

[Adam]

hello,
        I had been looking over the tips for debugging emacs in
        info pages  Emacs:Bugs:Checklist for bug reports. There
        are valuable tips for debugging it with gdb..

        what i'm trying to debug is look-as-if-it-had-hung
        condition. However it seems gdb gets thoroughly confused
        by the select() call and does not know how to get out of it.

        I have attached sample debug session below. suggestions
        how to get around this?

[adam@pepsi src]$ gdb ../../build/src/emacs-20.7.1
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
DISPLAY = :0.0
TERM = xterm
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8096552: file /usr/src/emacs/emacs-20.7/src/emacs.c,
line 282.
Breakpoint 2 at 0x808797e: file /usr/src/emacs/emacs-20.7/src/xterm.c,
line 5335.
(gdb) run
Starting program:
/usr/src/emacs/emacs-20.7/src/../../build/src/emacs-20.7.1 -geometry
80x40+0+0

Program received signal SIGTSTP, Stopped (user).
0x4033190e in __select () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb) finish
Run till exit from #0  0x4033190e in __select () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
warning: Cannot insert breakpoint 0:
Cannot access memory at address 0x0
(gdb) bt
#0  0x4033190e in __select () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1  0x00000000 in __strtol_internal (nptr=0x78 <Address 0x78 out of
bounds>,
    endptr=0x0, base=1, group=1)
(gdb) xbacktrace
Attempt to extract a component of a value that is not a structure pointer.
(gdb) quit
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
[adam@pepsi src]$ gdb ../../build/src/emacs-20.7.1 -q
DISPLAY = :0.0
TERM = xterm
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8096552: file /usr/src/emacs/emacs-20.7/src/emacs.c,
line 282.
Breakpoint 2 at 0x808797e: file /usr/src/emacs/emacs-20.7/src/xterm.c,
line 5335.
(gdb) run
Starting program:
/usr/src/emacs/emacs-20.7/src/../../build/src/emacs-20.7.1 -geometry
80x40+0+0

Program received signal SIGTSTP, Stopped (user).
0x4033190e in __select () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb) finish
Run till exit from #0  0x4033190e in __select () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
warning: Cannot insert breakpoint 0:
Cannot access memory at address 0x0
(gdb) bt
#0  0x4033190e in __select () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1  0x00000000 in __strtol_internal (nptr=0x78 <Address 0x78 out of
bounds>,
    endptr=0x0, base=1, group=1)
(gdb) xbacktrace
Attempt to extract a component of a value that is not a structure pointer.
(gdb)


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