bug#21528: 25.0.50; gud tries to guess what file we're debugging, which can take a long time

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Both of those could be true, but probably not all that often. Especially
>> the "program is executable part" easily fails for interpreted languages.
>
> How about bypassing this search in 2 situations:
>
>  . the debuggee is on a remote system
>  . the debugger being invoked is for an interpreted language
>
> Would that be "good enough"?

I don't think it's all that useful to separate interpreted vs compiled
here -- it'll be slow (or not) in any case (and interpreted files are
normally executable).

So I've just made it not do the loop if it's on a remote system, and
there's a lot of files there in Emacs 29.

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