Re: C-g crash in C-x C-f (OSX Lion)

[Carsten Mattner]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 19 dec 2011 kl. 20:40 skrev Harald Hanche-Olsen:
>
>> [Carsten Mattner <address@hidden> (2011-12-19 18:50:44 UTC)]
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Lion ships with a tty only GNU emacs version 22.1.1.
>>>>
>>>> At least, that is what I find in /usr/bin on my machine.
>>>
>>> It does, but I don't use that. It doesn't have special patches to make
>>> key bindings I have working in the gui frontend only magically work,
>>> does it?
>>
>> I don't know. I don't use it myself. I was just answering a trivia
>> question, on the off chance that the asker really wanted to know.
>>
>> ObCrash: My emacs crashes too often too. Perhaps I should get into the
>> habit of always having a gdb attached to my running emacs, so I can
>> contribute backtraces of my own.
>
> It can't hurt.

Shouldn't gdb or another selected debugger be invocable from
the system level crash handler? This is generally possible on
Windows. At least that was the case 3 years ago.
If that's possible gdb (minus emacs .gdbinit) could be invoked
on demand.