Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 08:04:06 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: GDB and NT Emacs ?
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On 21 Aug 1997, Andrew Crabtree wrote:

> GNU Emacs 19.34.4 (i386-*-nt4.0) of Tue Jul 22 1997 on woozle
> 
> Whenever I try to invoke the regular gdb 4.16 (go32) that comes with DJGPP
> it crashes Emacs.  I am running 
> on NT 4.0 Service Pack 3, but I also tried at home under Win 95 with the
> same results.

Are you invoking gdb as an asynchronous process (with `M-x gdb' or some 
such)?  If so, you are might be using incompatible programs: NTEmacs has 
some problems running a DOS program as async process (it's all documented 
in the file named PROBLEMS in the Emacs distribution).  You should try 
the NT (native Win32) version of gdb.  I don't know where such a beast 
might be available.  And if you want to use gdb to debug DJGPP programs, 
it's possible you are out of luck.

Another possibility would be to doownload the latest NTEmacs (I think 
19.34.4 is NOT the latest) and try it.  I'm told that it solves some 
problems with forking DOS programs.

If all else fails, write to the NTEmacs maintainers, you might just have 
found a bug they'd love to hear about ;-).