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(Note): Describe features for debugging with GDB in Emacs.

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and, assuming that "xtype" says that args[0] is a symbol:

   xsymbol

** Debugging what happens while preloading and dumping Emacs

Type `gdb temacs' and start it with `r -batch -l loadup dump'.

If temacs actually succeeds when running under GDB in this way, do not

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and, assuming that "xtype" says that args[0] is a symbol:

   xsymbol

** Using GDB in Emacs

Debugging with GDB in Emacs offers some advantages over the command line (See
the GDB Graphical Interface node of the Emacs manual).  There are also some
features available just for debugging Emacs:

1) The command gud-pp isavailable on the tool bar (the `pp' icon) and allows
   the user to print the s-expression of the variable at point, in the GUD
   buffer.

2) Pressing `p' on a component of a watch expression that is a lisp object
   in the speedbar prints its s-expression in the GUD buffer.

3) The STOP button on the tool bar is adjusted so that it sends SIGTSTP
   instead of the usual SIGINT.

4) The command gud-pv has the global binding 'C-x C-a C-v' and prints the
   value of the lisp variable at point.

** Debugging what happens while preloading and dumping Emacs

Type `gdb temacs' and start it with `r -batch -l loadup dump'.

If temacs actually succeeds when running under GDB in this way, do not