Re: Enabling --enable-check-lisp-object-type by default on x86 and AMD64

[Paul Eggert]

On 05/03/2017 11:22 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This is better, but how sure we are people's GDB is built with Python
> support?

We can ask developers to upgrade. GDB pretty-printing has worked with 
embedded Python for several years (since GDB 7.3 in 2011, I believe). We 
are not talking about general Emacs users here, only developers who are 
building bleeding-edge Emacs from Git. It's reasonable to expect these 
folks to have reasonably modern tools, especially since the only problem 
here is that the backtrace will be a bit harder to read if they use an 
old GDB.

> Why not make this part of .gdbinit itself? 

Sure, we can do that.

> Also, the Python script should be a bit smarter, to support also the
> compilation without --enable-check-lisp-object-type.  When I try this
> script in such a build, GDB crashes when displaying a backtrace.
Also doable.

I installed the attached, which I hope addresses the above issues well 
enough.

0001-Pretty-print-Lisp_Object-values-in-GDB.patch
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