Re: Bug#131033: gdb 5.1 dumped core on me [was: Emacs abort under gdb]

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From: Daniel Jacobowitz
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:50

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On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 05:22:23PM +0100, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
>    >> (gdb) p/x current_buffer->auto_save_file_name
>    >> $59 = 0x1827b31c
>    >> (gdb) xstring
>    >> $60 = (struct Lisp_String *) 0x827b31c
>    >> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>    > 
>    > Does GDB's core file say something interesting about where did GDB
>    > crash?
>    
>    Especially a backtrace.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the backtrace of gdb's core looks like the
> backtrace of a dumped Emacs, but it is different from the real backtrace
> of the Emacs that was being debugged.  Maybe that's normal, I don't have
> any idea of what should a crashed gdb's backtrace look like.
>    
>    The other useful thing would be a confirmation that the Debian GDB 5.1 
>    really is a stock GDB 5.1 and doesn't have patches applied.  Is there 
>    anything unusual in the startup message for instance?
> 
> Nothing.  But I can read this in Debian's copyright file:
> Patch for Objective-C from:
>  ftp://ftp.es.ele.tue.nl/pub/objc/gdb-gnu-objc.diff.gz.uue

The information in that README is obsolete.  There is one small patch
applied in order to let m68k-linux build, and that's it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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Subject: Re: Bug#131033: gdb 5.1 dumped core on me [was: Emacs abort under gdb]
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