GNU bug report logs - #21528
25.0.50; gud tries to guess what file we're debugging, which can take a long time

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Reported by: Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net>

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 02:51:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net>
Cc: 21528 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21528: 25.0.50; gud tries to guess what file we're debugging, which can take a long time
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 10:59:16 +0300

> From: Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net>
> Cc: 21528 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 00:39:13 -0700
> 
> The current heuristic assumes that both
> 
> 1. The program we're debugging lives in the current directory
> 2. The program is executable
> 
> Both of those could be true, but probably not all that often. Especially
> the "program is executable part" easily fails for interpreted languages.

How about bypassing this search in 2 situations:

 . the debuggee is on a remote system
 . the debugger being invoked is for an interpreted language

Would that be "good enough"?
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