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bug#9767: 24.0.90; gdb initialization on Cygwin


From: Ken Brown
Subject: bug#9767: 24.0.90; gdb initialization on Cygwin
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:08:32 -0400
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On 10/16/2011 12:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
When I start a debugging session with M-x gdb, initialization doesn't
appear to complete. I don't get the "(gdb)" prompt, and the mode line
continues to say "initializing". If I press Return, I get the prompt
and the mode line changes to "ready". Everything works fine after that.
This seems Cygwin-specific; it doesn't happen on GNU/Linux.

I've checked that all the strings that emacs sends to gdb during
initialization (via gdb-input) do in fact get sent. And I've tried
sending those same strings to gdb outside of emacs (except for
"-inferior-tty-set..."), and nothing strange happened. In particular, I
did have a "(gdb)" prompt at each stage.

Further info: It seems that initialization is actually completing, but for some reason the buffer is not being redisplayed. To test this, I inserted (sit-for .1) at the end of gdb-update to force redisplay, and that solved the problem. Unless someone who understands redisplay can figure out why redisplay isn't happening on Cygwin, I'm inclined to apply the following patch:

=== modified file 'lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el'
--- lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el    2011-10-06 16:11:38 +0000
+++ lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el    2011-10-16 23:04:28 +0000
@@ -1726,7 +1726,8 @@
     (gdb-force-mode-line-update
      (propertize "initializing..." 'face font-lock-variable-name-face))
     (gdb-init-1)
-    (setq gdb-first-prompt nil))
+    (setq gdb-first-prompt nil)
+    (if (eq system-type 'cygwin) (sit-for .1)))

   (gdb-get-main-selected-frame)
   ;; We may need to update gdb-threads-list so we can use

Would this be reasonable?

Ken




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