Re: GDB debugger mode for Emacs in ELPA

[Nick Roberts]

 > I started off the process of installing ELPA, it was real nice and simple. I
 > then tried installing gdb-mi package started getting a repeatable crash in
 > emacs. The crash is happening in some ralloc.c. The initial downloading
 > works, I feel it is in extracting the archive and manipulating it in emacs
 > that is causing the problem. Let me try the same with a MinGW build.
 > 
 > I am using Emacs from GIT HEAD on M$-XP build using VS 2003 with image
 > support.
 > 
 > Stack trace follows:
 > 
 >      ntdll.dll!7c901230()     
 > >    emacs.exe!w32_abort()  Line 8194    C
 >      emacs.exe!r_re_alloc()  Line 1030    C
 >...

That looks like a problem with Emacs, not the package.  Assuming that you are
using GDB, what do you get if you type xbacktrace in the console?  (This is a
user defined command in .gdbinit which gives a backtrace of Lisp function
calls.)

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob