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25.0.91; Can't run gud-gdb on two instances of the same program

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> cert.org>
Cc: 22772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22772: 25.0.91; Can't run gud-gdb on two instances of the same program
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2021 12:44:37 +0200

Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> cert.org> writes:

> I was in a circumstance where I wanted to run a debugger on two
> instances of the same program, one compiled with one set of options, and
> one compiled with another.  I wanted to compare how they ran in certain
> parts of the code.  I use M-x gud-gdb, since the MI client doesn't
> support multipl debugger instances (which is sad).
>
> This fails, though, since I get the error:
>
>   gud-common-init: This program is already being debugged

This has now been fixed in Emacs 28.

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