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| author | Richard M. Stallman <[email protected]> | 2002-02-20 22:24:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <[email protected]> | 2002-02-20 22:24:59 +0000 |
| commit | 42a3c62765b43eee3586e5ba023a2e6d25c724d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 02db46feff98114ad31fa41281b8c0440599ea97 /etc | |
| parent | 31b62ac19e008fe9a2e7780c3228bf81e3b62daf (diff) | |
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@@ -16,13 +16,17 @@ Copyright (c) 1985, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. should read the Windows-specific section near the end of this document.] -It is a good idea to run Emacs under GDB (or some other suitable +** When you debug Emacs with GDB, you should start it in the directory +where you built Emacs. That directory has a .gdbinit file that defines +various "user-defined" commands for debugging Emacs. + +** It is a good idea to run Emacs under GDB (or some other suitable debugger) *all the time*. Then, when Emacs crashes, you will be able to debug the live process, not just a core dump. (This is especially important on systems which don't support core files, and instead print just the registers and some stack addresses.) -If Emacs hangs, or seems to be stuck in some infinite loop, typing +** If Emacs hangs, or seems to be stuck in some infinite loop, typing "kill -TSTP PID", where PID is the Emacs process ID, will cause GDB to kick in, provided that you run under GDB. |