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28.0.60; gdb-mi error message: "wrong type argument: stringp"

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: sebastian <at> bsnrg.net
Cc: 52196 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52196: 28.0.60; gdb-mi error message: "wrong type argument:
 stringp"
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:10:21 +0100

sebastian <at> bsnrg.net writes:

> In the function gdb-frame-handler the form:
>
> (setq gdb-selected-file (file-local-name (gdb-mi--field frame 'fullname)))
>
> causes the error message if gdb-mi--field returns nil. I don't know if this is an expected return value for that function or not. In any case, file-local-name signals the error in case of nil input. The file-local-name wrapping was introduced semi-recently with commit 019c70e731d0243ad3ea2d4ebb02dd4a343e868f.

Thanks for the analysis.  I think I've now fixed this in Emacs 28 -- can
you pull and rebuild and see whether this works better now?

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