Re: gud/gdb

[Nick Roberts]

 > Sorry, we've already fixed the bug in our program that caused it to crash at
 > that spot.  I should have mentioned that we have commands in .gdbinit, so
 > apparently the work-around (using M-x gdba instead) that you suggest below
 > would have worked, and you've encountered the bug/issue before (seeminly,
 > emacs switches to gdb-ui.el too late, after the first source location marker
 > has arrived).  This explains other behavior I noticed, which is that we can
 > work around the problem by breaking the program in a different spot first,
 > and then when it gets to the troublesome part (of our program to be
 > debugged), it works.
 > 
 > Is there a reason that M-x gdba hasn't simply replaced M-x gdb?

There is a thread where I suggested this, starting at:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-07/msg00070.html

It lost it's way a bit but as you're the third person to report these problems,
I think we should revisit it and make gdb-ui the default in some way, at least.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob