[Python-Dev] enhanced gdbinit file - looking for Python+Emacs+gdb users

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Nov 21 10:03:51 CET 2004


Skip Montanaro wrote:
> There's one slight hitch.  It works perfectly when travelling up the C stack
> using the up command, however in my environment at least (MacOSX w/ Apple's
> gcc and gdb) it causes gdb to segfault when travelling down the stack.  I
> can't see anything that would make the behavior different going up instead
> of down.  I need some people to try this thing out to see if it barfs for
> them as well.  Maybe it's just something peculiar to my environment.  OTOH,
> perhaps it's a bug in gdb.

Without actually looking at your code: a segfault in gdb is always a
bug, even if triggered through gdb macros.

Regards,
Martin


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