Mercurial > emacs
changeset 69477:4a8aa0c1f128
(Note): Describe features for debugging with GDB in Emacs.
| author | Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> |
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| date | Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:29:15 +0000 |
| parents | 1db3b0eac5a2 |
| children | e8bb5df2ba7a |
| files | etc/DEBUG |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/DEBUG Tue Mar 14 20:27:57 2006 +0000 +++ b/etc/DEBUG Tue Mar 14 20:29:15 2006 +0000 @@ -245,6 +245,25 @@ 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'.