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23.1.50; wrong-type-argument stringp nil in gdb

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Marshall <robert.marshall <at> tnei.co.uk>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.50; wrong-type-argument stringp nil in gdb
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:49:37 +0100

Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org mailing list.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

If you download the program
http://clivecooper.co.uk/tutorial/changetime.tar.gz
from
http://clivecooper.co.uk/tutorial/index.html

(this was just used to get a small enough program which replicated the
bug - I'm guessing there may be a issue with qt moc'ed file here)

the tar file includes a compiled version of the program - but you should
probably build it yourself though you'll need a qt dev environment.

Run the program under gdb and when the program window appears interrupt
it in gdb and once interrupted move one level up the call stack.

You then get a wrong-type-argument stringp nil error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  string-match("//+" nil)
  gud-find-file(nil)
  gud-display-line(nil 83)
  gud-display-frame()
  gdb-frame-handler()


If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/home/robert/emacs/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.4 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.1)
 of 2009-10-13 on robert-laptop
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10600000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t


Recent messages:
This version of GDB doesn't support non-stop mode.  Turning it off.
Command: up 1
error in process filter: gud-find-file: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
error in process filter: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
Mark set

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Message #8 received at 4714 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Marshall <robert.marshall <at> tnei.co.uk>
Cc: 4714 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1.50; wrong-type-argument stringp nil in gdb
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:17:20 +0800

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>   string-match("//+" nil)
>   gud-find-file(nil)
>   gud-display-line(nil 83)
>   gud-display-frame()
>   gdb-frame-handler()

Sorry for the long delay in replying.  I think this was a bug in the
`gdb-source' function of gdb-ui.el, which should be fixed with the
following patch.  But gdb-ui.el has since been replaced with a different
implementation, gdb-mi.el, in the trunk, which does not have this
problem.

*** lisp/progmodes/gdb-ui.el	2011-01-02 23:50:46 +0000
--- lisp/progmodes/gdb-ui.el	2011-12-26 08:15:50 +0000
***************
*** 1427,1442 ****
  
  ;; Do not use this except as an annotation handler.
  (defun gdb-source (args)
!   (string-match gdb-source-spec-regexp args)
!   ;; Extract the frame position from the marker.
!   (setq gud-last-frame
! 	(cons
! 	 (match-string 1 args)
! 	 (string-to-number (match-string 2 args))))
!   (setq gdb-pc-address (match-string 3 args))
!   ;; cover for auto-display output which comes *before*
!   ;; stopped annotation
!   (if (eq gdb-output-sink 'inferior) (setq gdb-output-sink 'user)))
  
  (defun gdb-pre-prompt (ignored)
    "An annotation handler for `pre-prompt'.
--- 1427,1442 ----
  
  ;; Do not use this except as an annotation handler.
  (defun gdb-source (args)
!   (when (string-match gdb-source-spec-regexp args)
!     ;; Extract the frame position from the marker.
!     (setq gud-last-frame
! 	  (cons
! 	   (match-string 1 args)
! 	   (string-to-number (match-string 2 args))))
!     (setq gdb-pc-address (match-string 3 args))
!     ;; cover for auto-display output which comes *before*
!     ;; stopped annotation
!     (if (eq gdb-output-sink 'inferior) (setq gdb-output-sink 'user))))
  
  (defun gdb-pre-prompt (ignored)
    "An annotation handler for `pre-prompt'.

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