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15 values" and "Debugging Emacs Redisplay problems".) |
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17 ** When you are trying to analyze failed assertions, it will be |
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20 to do so may make the compiler recycle the same abort call for all |
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24 ** It is a good idea to run Emacs under GDB (or some other suitable |
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25 debugger) *all the time*. Then, when Emacs crashes, you will be able |
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26 to debug the live process, not just a core dump. (This is especially |
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28 just the registers and some stack addresses.) |
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25853 | 37 All Lisp errors go through there. |
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40 the debugger at any time. When using X, this is easy: type C-z at the |
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55 the code for some character into the variable stop_character. Thus, |
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57 set stop_character = 29 | |
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59 makes Control-] (decimal code 29) the stop character. | |
60 Typing Control-] will cause immediate stop. You cannot | |
61 use the set command until the inferior process has been started. | |
62 Put a breakpoint early in `main', or suspend the Emacs, | |
63 to get an opportunity to do the set command. | |
64 | |
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25853 | 70 ** Examining Lisp object values. |
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72 When you have a live process to debug, and it has not encountered a | |
73 fatal error, you can use the GDB command `pr'. First print the value | |
74 in the ordinary way, with the `p' command. Then type `pr' with no | |
75 arguments. This calls a subroutine which uses the Lisp printer. | |
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104 type. Here are these commands: |
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106 xint xptr xwindow xmarker xoverlay xmiscfree xintfwd xboolfwd xobjfwd | |
107 xbufobjfwd xkbobjfwd xbuflocal xbuffer xsymbol xstring xvector xframe | |
108 xwinconfig xcompiled xcons xcar xcdr xsubr xprocess xfloat xscrollbar | |
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110 Each one of them applies to a certain type or class of types. | |
111 (Some of these types are not visible in Lisp, because they exist only | |
112 internally.) | |
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114 Each x... command prints some information about the value, and | |
115 produces a GDB value (subsequently available in $) through which you | |
116 can get at the rest of the contents. | |
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164 "p XVECTOR (this_command_keys)". |
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186 But this may be inconvenient, since `recent_keys' is much more verbose |
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187 than `C-h l'. We might want to print only the last 10 elements of |
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188 this vector. `recent_keys' is updated in keyboard.c by the command |
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190 XVECTOR (recent_keys)->contents[recent_keys_index] = c; |
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210 xvector-elts v n i |
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219 If that doesn't work (e.g., because the `backtrace_list' structure is |
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220 corrupted), type "bt" at the GDB prompt, to produce the C-level |
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221 backtrace, and look for stack frames that call Ffuncall. Select them |
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222 one by one in GDB, by typing "up N", where N is the appropriate number |
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223 of frames to go up, and in each frame that calls Ffuncall type this: |
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228 This will print the name of the Lisp function called by that level |
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231 By printing the remaining elements of args, you can see the argument |
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237 If you do not have a live process, you can use xtype and the other |
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238 x... commands such as xsymbol to get such information, albeit less |
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250 The src/.gdbinit file defines many useful commands for dumping redisplay |
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253 `ppt' prints value of PT, narrowing, and gap in current buffer. |
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254 `pit' dumps the current display iterator `it'. |
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255 `pwin' dumps the current window 'win'. |
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256 `prow' dumps the current glyph_row `row'. |
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257 `pg' dumps the current glyph `glyph'. |
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258 `pgi' dumps the next glyph. |
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259 `pgrow' dumps all glyphs in current glyph_row `row'. |
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262 The above commands also exist in a version with an `x' suffix which |
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263 takes an object of the relevant type as argument. |
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274 Debugging with GDB in Emacs offers some advantages over the command line (See |
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275 the GDB Graphical Interface node of the Emacs manual). There are also some |
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276 features available just for debugging Emacs: |
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283 in the speedbar prints its s-expression in the GUD buffer. |
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285 3) The STOP button on the tool bar is adjusted so that it sends SIGTSTP |
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286 instead of the usual SIGINT. |
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288 4) The command gud-pv has the global binding 'C-x C-a C-v' and prints the |
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289 value of the lisp variable at point. |
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293 Type `gdb temacs' and start it with `r -batch -l loadup dump'. |
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295 If temacs actually succeeds when running under GDB in this way, do not |
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296 try to run the dumped Emacs, because it was dumped with the GDB |
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297 breakpoints in it. |
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301 Debugging `temacs' is useful when you want to establish whether a |
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302 problem happens in an undumped Emacs. To run `temacs' under a |
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303 debugger, type "gdb temacs", then start it with `r -batch -l loadup'. |
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308 so you find out about them long after the primitive which caused |
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309 the error has returned. |
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311 To get clear information about the cause of an error, try evaluating |
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313 Xlib call checks for errors before it returns. This mode is much |
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314 slower, but when you get an error, you will see exactly which call |
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318 option, like this: |
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320 emacs -xrm "emacs.synchronous: true" |
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322 Setting a breakpoint in the function `x_error_quitter' and looking at |
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323 the backtrace when Emacs stops inside that function will show what |
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324 code causes the X protocol errors. |
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326 Some bugs related to the X protocol disappear when Emacs runs in a |
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327 synchronous mode. To track down those bugs, we suggest the following |
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328 procedure: |
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330 - Run Emacs under a debugger and put a breakpoint inside the |
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331 primitive function which, when called from Lisp, triggers the X |
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332 protocol errors. For example, if the errors happen when you |
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333 delete a frame, put a breakpoint inside `Fdelete_frame'. |
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335 - When the breakpoint breaks, step through the code, looking for |
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336 calls to X functions (the ones whose names begin with "X" or |
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337 "Xt" or "Xm"). |
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339 - Insert calls to `XSync' before and after each call to the X |
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342 XSync (f->output_data.x->display_info->display, 0); |
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344 where `f' is the pointer to the `struct frame' of the selected |
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345 frame, normally available via XFRAME (selected_frame). (Most |
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346 functions which call X already have some variable that holds the |
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347 pointer to the frame, perhaps called `f' or `sf', so you shouldn't |
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348 need to compute it.) |
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350 If your debugger can call functions in the program being debugged, |
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351 you should be able to issue the calls to `XSync' without recompiling |
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352 Emacs. For example, with GDB, just type: |
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357 debugger does not support this, you will need to add these pairs |
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371 You can trace the traffic between Emacs and your X server with a tool | |
372 like xmon, available at ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/devel_tools/. | |
373 | |
374 Xmon can be used to see exactly what Emacs sends when X protocol errors | |
375 happen. If Emacs causes the X server memory usage to increase you can | |
376 use xmon to see what items Emacs creates in the server (windows, | |
377 graphical contexts, pixmaps) and what items Emacs delete. If there | |
378 are consistently more creations than deletions, the type of item | |
379 and the activity you do when the items get created can give a hint where | |
380 to start debugging. | |
381 | |
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385 To find out which, make the problem happen under GDB and stop Emacs |
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387 can stop Emacs by typing C-z at the GDB job.) Then try stepping with |
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388 `step'. If Emacs is hung, the `step' command won't return. If it is |
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391 If this shows Emacs is hung in a system call, stop it again and |
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392 examine the arguments of the call. If you report the bug, it is very |
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393 important to state exactly where in the source the system call is, and |
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396 If Emacs is in an infinite loop, try to determine where the loop |
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397 starts and ends. The easiest way to do this is to use the GDB command |
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398 `finish'. Each time you use it, Emacs resumes execution until it |
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400 return--that means the infinite loop is in the stack frame which you |
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403 Stop Emacs again, and use `finish' repeatedly again until you get back |
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405 stepping, you will see where the loop starts and ends. Also, examine |
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406 the data being used in the loop and try to determine why the loop does |
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407 not exit when it should. |
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409 ** If certain operations in Emacs are slower than they used to be, here |
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412 Stop Emacs repeatedly during the slow operation, and make a backtrace |
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413 each time. Compare the backtraces looking for a pattern--a specific |
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414 function that shows up more often than you'd expect. |
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416 If you don't see a pattern in the C backtraces, get some Lisp |
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417 backtrace information by typing "xbacktrace" or by looking at Ffuncall |
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418 frames (see above), and again look for a pattern. |
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420 When using X, you can stop Emacs at any time by typing C-z at GDB. |
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421 When not using X, you can do this with C-g. On non-Unix platforms, |
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422 such as MS-DOS, you might need to press C-BREAK instead. |
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25853 | 424 ** If GDB does not run and your debuggers can't load Emacs. |
425 | |
426 On some systems, no debugger can load Emacs with a symbol table, | |
427 perhaps because they all have fixed limits on the number of symbols | |
428 and Emacs exceeds the limits. Here is a method that can be used | |
429 in such an extremity. Do | |
430 | |
431 nm -n temacs > nmout | |
432 strip temacs | |
433 adb temacs | |
434 0xd:i | |
435 0xe:i | |
436 14:i | |
437 17:i | |
438 :r -l loadup (or whatever) | |
439 | |
440 It is necessary to refer to the file `nmout' to convert | |
441 numeric addresses into symbols and vice versa. | |
442 | |
443 It is useful to be running under a window system. | |
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444 Then, if Emacs becomes hopelessly wedged, you can create another |
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445 window to do kill -9 in. kill -ILL is often useful too, since that |
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448 | |
449 ** Debugging incorrect screen updating. | |
450 | |
451 To debug Emacs problems that update the screen wrong, it is useful | |
452 to have a record of what input you typed and what Emacs sent to the | |
453 screen. To make these records, do | |
454 | |
455 (open-dribble-file "~/.dribble") | |
456 (open-termscript "~/.termscript") | |
457 | |
458 The dribble file contains all characters read by Emacs from the | |
459 terminal, and the termscript file contains all characters it sent to | |
460 the terminal. The use of the directory `~/' prevents interference | |
461 with any other user. | |
462 | |
463 If you have irreproducible display problems, put those two expressions | |
464 in your ~/.emacs file. When the problem happens, exit the Emacs that | |
465 you were running, kill it, and rename the two files. Then you can start | |
466 another Emacs without clobbering those files, and use it to examine them. | |
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469 evaluate `(setq inverse-video t)' before you try the operation you think |
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470 will cause too much redrawing. This doesn't refresh the screen, so only |
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473 The Emacs display code includes special debugging code, but it is |
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474 normally disabled. You can enable it by building Emacs with the |
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475 pre-processing symbol GLYPH_DEBUG defined. Here's one easy way, |
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476 suitable for Unix and GNU systems, to build such a debugging version: |
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478 MYCPPFLAGS='-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1' make |
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480 Building Emacs like that activates many assertions which scrutinize |
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481 display code operation more than Emacs does normally. (To see the |
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482 code which tests these assertions, look for calls to the `xassert' |
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485 Building with GLYPH_DEBUG defined also defines several helper |
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486 functions which can help debugging display code. One such function is |
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487 `dump_glyph_matrix'. If you run Emacs under GDB, you can print the |
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488 contents of any glyph matrix by just calling that function with the |
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489 matrix as its argument. For example, the following command will print |
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490 the contents of the current matrix of the window whose pointer is in `w': |
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492 (gdb) p dump_glyph_matrix (w->current_matrix, 2) |
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494 (The second argument 2 tells dump_glyph_matrix to print the glyphs in |
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495 a long form.) You can dump the selected window's current glyph matrix |
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496 interactively with "M-x dump-glyph-matrix RET"; see the documentation |
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497 of this function for more details. |
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499 Several more functions for debugging display code are available in |
37565 | 500 Emacs compiled with GLYPH_DEBUG defined; type "C-h f dump- TAB" and |
501 "C-h f trace- TAB" to see the full list. | |
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57307 | 503 When you debug display problems running emacs under X, you can use |
504 the `ff' command to flush all pending display updates to the screen. | |
505 | |
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509 If you encounter bugs whereby Emacs built with LessTif grabs all mouse |
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510 and keyboard events, or LessTif menus behave weirdly, it might be |
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511 helpful to set the `DEBUGSOURCES' and `DEBUG_FILE' environment |
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516 export DEBUG_FILE=/usr/tmp/LESSTIF_TRACE |
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521 be typed at the shell prompt before invoking Emacs, as shown by the |
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524 Running GDB from another terminal could also help with such problems. |
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525 You can arrange for GDB to run on one machine, with the Emacs display |
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526 appearing on another. Then, when the bug happens, you can go back to |
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527 the machine where you started GDB and use the debugger from there. |
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534 Whenever the garbage collector marks a Lisp object, it records the |
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535 pointer to that object in the `last_marked' array, which is maintained |
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537 index into the `last_marked' array one place beyond where the pointer |
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540 The single most important goal in debugging GC problems is to find the |
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541 Lisp data structure that got corrupted. This is not easy since GC |
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542 changes the tag bits and relocates strings which make it hard to look |
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543 at Lisp objects with commands such as `pr'. It is sometimes necessary |
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544 to convert Lisp_Object variables into pointers to C struct's manually. |
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546 Use the `last_marked' array and the source to reconstruct the sequence |
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547 that objects were marked. In general, you need to correlate the |
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548 values recorded in the `last_marked' array with the corresponding |
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549 stack frames in the backtrace, beginning with the innermost frame. |
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550 Some subroutines of `mark_object' are invoked recursively, others loop |
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551 over portions of the data structure and mark them as they go. By |
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552 looking at the code of those routines and comparing the frames in the |
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553 backtrace with the values in `last_marked', you will be able to find |
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554 connections between the values in `last_marked'. E.g., when GC finds |
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555 a cons cell, it recursively marks its car and its cdr. Similar things |
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556 happen with properties of symbols, elements of vectors, etc. Use |
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557 these connections to reconstruct the data structure that was being |
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558 marked, paying special attention to the strings and names of symbols |
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559 that you encounter: these strings and symbol names can be used to grep |
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560 the sources to find out what high-level symbols and global variables |
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561 are involved in the crash. |
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563 Once you discover the corrupted Lisp object or data structure, grep |
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564 the sources for its uses and try to figure out what could cause the |
77156 | 565 corruption. If looking at the sources doesn't help, you could try |
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566 setting a watchpoint on the corrupted data, and see what code modifies |
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567 it in some invalid way. (Obviously, this technique is only useful for |
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568 data that is modified only very rarely.) |
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570 It is also useful to look at the corrupted object or data structure in |
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571 a fresh Emacs session and compare its contents with a session that you |
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572 are debugging. |
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575 | |
576 If you experience problems which seem to be related to non-ASCII | |
577 characters, such as \201 characters appearing in the buffer or in your | |
578 files, set the variable byte-debug-flag to t. This causes Emacs to do | |
579 some extra checks, such as look for broken relations between byte and | |
580 character positions in buffers and strings; the resulting diagnostics | |
581 might pinpoint the cause of the problem. | |
582 | |
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583 ** Debugging the TTY (non-windowed) version |
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585 The most convenient method of debugging the character-terminal display |
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586 is to do that on a window system such as X. Begin by starting an |
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587 xterm window, then type these commands inside that window: |
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589 $ tty |
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590 $ echo $TERM |
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591 |
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592 Let's say these commands print "/dev/ttyp4" and "xterm", respectively. |
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594 Now start Emacs (the normal, windowed-display session, i.e. without |
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595 the `-nw' option), and invoke "M-x gdb RET emacs RET" from there. Now |
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596 type these commands at GDB's prompt: |
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598 (gdb) set args -nw -t /dev/ttyp4 |
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599 (gdb) set environment TERM xterm |
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600 (gdb) run |
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602 The debugged Emacs should now start in no-window mode with its display |
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603 directed to the xterm window you opened above. |
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605 Similar arrangement is possible on a character terminal by using the |
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606 `screen' package. |
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608 ** Running Emacs built with malloc debugging packages |
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610 If Emacs exhibits bugs that seem to be related to use of memory |
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611 allocated off the heap, it might be useful to link Emacs with a |
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612 special debugging library, such as Electric Fence (a.k.a. efence) or |
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613 GNU Checker, which helps find such problems. |
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615 Emacs compiled with such packages might not run without some hacking, |
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616 because Emacs replaces the system's memory allocation functions with |
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617 its own versions, and because the dumping process might be |
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618 incompatible with the way these packages use to track allocated |
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621 - Edit configure, to set system_malloc and CANNOT_DUMP to "yes". |
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623 - Configure with a different --prefix= option. If you use GCC, |
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624 version 2.7.2 is preferred, as some malloc debugging packages |
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625 work a lot better with it than with 2.95 or later versions. |
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627 - Type "make" then "make -k install". |
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629 - If required, invoke the package-specific command to prepare |
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630 src/temacs for execution. |
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632 - cd ..; src/temacs |
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634 (Note that this runs `temacs' instead of the usual `emacs' executable. |
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635 This avoids problems with dumping Emacs mentioned above.) |
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637 Some malloc debugging libraries might print lots of false alarms for |
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638 bitfields used by Emacs in some data structures. If you want to get |
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639 rid of the false alarms, you will have to hack the definitions of |
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640 these data structures on the respective headers to remove the `:N' |
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641 bitfield definitions (which will cause each such field to use a full |
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642 int). |
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63310 | 644 ** How to recover buffer contents from an Emacs core dump file |
645 | |
646 The file etc/emacs-buffer.gdb defines a set of GDB commands for | |
647 recovering the contents of Emacs buffers from a core dump file. You | |
648 might also find those commands useful for displaying the list of | |
649 buffers in human-readable format from within the debugger. | |
650 | |
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655 To debug Emacs with Microsoft Visual C++, you either start emacs from |
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656 the debugger or attach the debugger to a running emacs process. |
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658 To start emacs from the debugger, you can use the file bin/debug.bat. |
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659 The Microsoft Developer studio will start and under Project, Settings, |
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660 Debug, General you can set the command-line arguments and Emacs's |
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661 startup directory. Set breakpoints (Edit, Breakpoints) at Fsignal and |
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662 other functions that you want to examine. Run the program (Build, |
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663 Start debug). Emacs will start and the debugger will take control as |
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664 soon as a breakpoint is hit. |
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671 trace window and go up the stack to w32_msg_pump. Now you can set |
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672 breakpoints in Emacs (Edit, Breakpoints). Continue the running Emacs |
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676 To examine the contents of a Lisp variable, you can use the function |
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677 'debug_print'. Right-click on a variable, select QuickWatch (it has |
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678 an eyeglass symbol on its button in the toolbar), and in the text |
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679 field at the top of the window, place 'debug_print(' and ')' around |
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680 the expression. Press 'Recalculate' and the output is sent to stderr, |
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681 and to the debugger via the OutputDebugString routine. The output |
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682 sent to stderr should be displayed in the console window that was |
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683 opened when the emacs.exe executable was started. The output sent to |
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684 the debugger should be displayed in the 'Debug' pane in the Output |
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685 window. If Emacs was started from the debugger, a console window was |
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686 opened at Emacs' startup; this console window also shows the output of |
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687 'debug_print'. |
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689 For example, start and run Emacs in the debugger until it is waiting |
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690 for user input. Then click on the `Break' button in the debugger to |
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691 halt execution. Emacs should halt in `ZwUserGetMessage' waiting for |
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692 an input event. Use the `Call Stack' window to select the procedure |
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693 `w32_msp_pump' up the call stack (see below for why you have to do |
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694 this). Open the QuickWatch window and enter |
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695 "debug_print(Vexec_path)". Evaluating this expression will then print |
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696 out the contents of the Lisp variable `exec-path'. |
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698 If QuickWatch reports that the symbol is unknown, then check the call |
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699 stack in the `Call Stack' window. If the selected frame in the call |
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700 stack is not an Emacs procedure, then the debugger won't recognize |
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701 Emacs symbols. Instead, select a frame that is inside an Emacs |
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702 procedure and try using `debug_print' again. |
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704 If QuickWatch invokes debug_print but nothing happens, then check the |
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705 thread that is selected in the debugger. If the selected thread is |
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706 not the last thread to run (the "current" thread), then it cannot be |
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707 used to execute debug_print. Use the Debug menu to select the current |
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708 thread and try using debug_print again. Note that the debugger halts |
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709 execution (e.g., due to a breakpoint) in the context of the current |
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710 thread, so this should only be a problem if you've explicitly switched |
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713 It is also possible to keep appropriately masked and typecast Lisp |
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714 symbols in the Watch window, this is more convenient when steeping |
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715 though the code. For instance, on entering apply_lambda, you can |
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716 watch (struct Lisp_Symbol *) (0xfffffff & args[0]). |
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718 Optimizations often confuse the MS debugger. For example, the |
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719 debugger will sometimes report wrong line numbers, e.g., when it |
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721 disassembly to determine exactly what code is being run--the |
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722 disassembly will probably show several source lines followed by a |
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723 block of assembler for those lines. The actual point where Emacs |
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725 that the debugger reports. |
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729 those variables. Usually you will not be able to see any value for a |
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730 register variable, but if it is only being stored in a register |
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731 temporarily, you will see an old value for it. Again, you need to |
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732 look at the disassembly to determine which registers are being used, |
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733 and look at those registers directly, to see the actual current values |
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734 of these variables. |
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739 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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740 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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742 (at your option) any later version. |
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746 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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747 GNU General Public License for more details. |
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