Re: GDB on Mac is Broken

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:58:11 +0900
> From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden>
> 
> The related difference between Emacs 22, on which the completion
> works, and Emacs 23 seems to be:
> 
>   1. The default value of default-process-coding-system.
>   2. A change in comint-exec-1.
> 
> For the first one, the value is (mule-utf-8 . mule-utf-8) in Emacs 22,
> and (utf-8-unix . utf-8-unix) in Emacs 23 on Mac OS X 10.6.

And what is wrong with the Emacs 23 default, exactly?  Doesn't OS X
use LF as the end-of-line character, when communicating with
subprocesses in general and with GDB in particular?

> At least, the above differences explain why completion in *gdb*
> buffer behaves differently between Emacs 22 and 23.

Could you please explain how these two differences explain the bug?
I'm afraid I don't see the immediate connection.