bug#3781: gdb doesn't have an xbacktrace command

[Dmitry Dzhus]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs as well.

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> report-emacs-bug says:
>     (insert "If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb 
> debugger,\n"
>           "please include the output from the following gdb commands:\n"
>           "    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.\n")
> However
> (gdb) xbacktrace
> Undefined command: "xbacktrace".  Try "help".

Command xbacktrace is defined in `.gdbinit` file in src/ subdirectory of
GNU Emacs distribution. You need to run Emacs under GDB from the
directory which contains this `.gdbinit` file, or you can load it with
`source` command.

See also "(emacs)Checklist for Bug Reports".
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