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bug#22012: 25.1.50; gdb broken by (json-string-format "doesn't start wit


From: martin rudalics
Subject: bug#22012: 25.1.50; gdb broken by (json-string-format "doesn't start with `\"'!")
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 17:58:22 +0100

>> How would I know what what ‘json-read-string’ tries to read at that
>> moment?  Am I supposed to instrument it?
>
> Why not?

Debugging the debugger while debugging?

> Alternatively...

You mean there's none?

>> Maybe
>>
>>    (unless (char-equal (json-peek) ?\")
>>      (signal 'json-string-format (list "doesn't start with `\"'!")))
>
> ...you can add a (debug) call before (signal ...). And when the debugger 
hits, press `e' and evaluate (buffer-string) and (point).
>
> Seeing the value of buffer-string might be sufficient if json-read is being 
called in a wrong buffer.

But what is the use of the above signal when it doesn't tell me where to
find the source of the problem?

>> should report the current buffer and its value of point.
>
> I wouldn't mind if it did. Though that would need to be done in all such 
places.

Which places?

> But for the purposes of debugging, you can modify just that function's 
definition to report what's required.

I do so already.  Now it stopped complaining.  Yet another Heisenbug.

>> Anyway, if I understand the backtrace correctly, the current buffer
>> should have been "*breakpoints of emacs.exe*".
>
> I'm not sure what that implies. Does it have JSON content?

What is JSON content?

martin






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