[bug #63730] The "see" command hangs forever on a default Ubuntu installation

[Anton Ertl]

Update of bug #63730 (project gforth):

                  Status:            Works For Me => Confirmed              

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Follow-up Comment #2:

Does not work for me.  Yes, there is the workaround of using the Gforth
disassemblers, but sometimes I want to use disasm-gdb; e.g., for instructions
that the Gforth disassemblers don't support or that they disassemble in funny
ways.

One can see it as a bug in Ubuntu, but the Ubuntu people probably consider it
a feature.  And I doubt that they will disable this feature for Gforth, or are
able to produce a workaround for their breakage.

So how do we deal with it? I found a workaround (attached) that works with
Ubuntu 22.04, but failed when I tried it on Debian 7 (due to differences
between gdb versions).  Well, I guess the 22.04 workaround is good enough for
attaching to a bug report to Ubuntu, so they can apply it to their release;
will you report the bug to Ubuntu, Jerome?

If we wanted to produce a 0.7.4, I would have to work out something that works
with older gdb versions.  Tinkering at it for an hour produced nothing
workable, but it's just a matter of putting in more work (but is it worth
it?).

I guess I will do something better for 1.0.


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