# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 1118494959 0 # Node ID 58942e3c1b5634c55e67e605dc39df553986d616 # Parent a500d3fcf4a90bd2044eb1db5de5a64bc2a8ba24 Mention emacs-buffer.gdb. diff -r a500d3fcf4a9 -r 58942e3c1b56 etc/DEBUG --- a/etc/DEBUG Sat Jun 11 11:31:43 2005 +0000 +++ b/etc/DEBUG Sat Jun 11 13:02:39 2005 +0000 @@ -576,6 +576,13 @@ bitfield definitions (which will cause each such field to use a full int). +** How to recover buffer contents from an Emacs core dump file + +The file etc/emacs-buffer.gdb defines a set of GDB commands for +recovering the contents of Emacs buffers from a core dump file. You +might also find those commands useful for displaying the list of +buffers in human-readable format from within the debugger. + ** Some suggestions for debugging on MS Windows: (written by Marc Fleischeuers, Geoff Voelker and Andrew Innes)