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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:45:24 -0400
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Subject: Re: Problem w/ gdb 7.3.50-2 under emacs
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On 10/13/2011 9:10 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 13/10/2011 6:36 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 10/13/2011 2:32 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>> Update: gdb (previous version and home-built) doesn't seg fault, but is
>>> unable to run commands under the latest cygwin emacs: nothing happens
>>> when you hit [enter], though it usually responds to ^C and comes back to
>>> the gdb prompt. A home-built emacs works perfectly (at least, with the
>>> previous version of cygwin gdb).
>>
>> Are you implying that the previous version of Cygwin gdb doesn't work
>> with Cygwin emacs?
> On my machine, yes... though I don't remember this being a problem
> before upgrading gdb the first time. YMMV.

I just found a workaround that allows M-x gdb to work in emacs with the 
current gdb (7.3.50-2).  Start M-x gdb and don't specify a filename. 
gdb starts up fine.  Then use the "file" command in gdb to load the 
program you want to debug, and everything works.

See if that works for you.

Ken


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