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29.2; debugging with gdb problem with input/output buffer

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From: Davide Lombardo <careless <at> live.it>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.2; debugging with gdb problem with input/output buffer
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:15:51 +0100

When Debugging a simple program with gdb in gdb-many-windows mode,
when I type any kind of input in the I/O dedicated buffer, I always
get the message - Output file descriptor of gdb-inferior is
closed - I can't send input to the program I'm trying to debug, I don't
get any output either.

In GNU Emacs 29.2 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2024-02-29 built on
 fv-az663-517
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19045
System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (v10.0.2009.19045.4170)

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Message #8 received at 70014 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Davide Lombardo <careless <at> live.it>
Cc: 70014 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70014: 29.2;
 debugging with gdb problem with input/output buffer
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:20:46 +0200

> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:15:51 +0100
> From: Davide Lombardo <careless <at> live.it>
> 
> When Debugging a simple program with gdb in gdb-many-windows mode,
> when I type any kind of input in the I/O dedicated buffer, I always
> get the message - Output file descriptor of gdb-inferior is
> closed - I can't send input to the program I'm trying to debug, I don't
> get any output either.
> 
> In GNU Emacs 29.2 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2024-02-29 built on
>   fv-az663-517

This feature doesn't work on MS-Windows because the underlying GDB
feature (set inferior-tty) doesn't.  If someone knows how to fix that,
patches are very welcome, but they are are probably need to be
submitted to GDB, not to Emacs.

Message #11 received at 70014 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 70014 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, careless <at> live.it
Subject: Re: bug#70014: 29.2;
 debugging with gdb problem with input/output buffer
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:03:36 -0400

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  > This feature doesn't work on MS-Windows because the underlying GDB
  > feature (set inferior-tty) doesn't.  If someone knows how to fix that,
  > patches are very welcome, but they are are probably need to be
  > submitted to GDB, not to Emacs.

Emacs should at least five a clear error message.
That it can do without changes in GDB.  For users to know
that this usage is unsupported in GDB would be a big help.

I would guess that there are fundamental reasons it is not supported

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Message #14 received at 70014 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 70014 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, careless <at> live.it
Subject: Re: bug#70014: 29.2;
 debugging with gdb problem with input/output buffer
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:36:54 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: careless <at> live.it, 70014 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:03:36 -0400
> 
>   > This feature doesn't work on MS-Windows because the underlying GDB
>   > feature (set inferior-tty) doesn't.  If someone knows how to fix that,
>   > patches are very welcome, but they are are probably need to be
>   > submitted to GDB, not to Emacs.
> 
> Emacs should at least five a clear error message.
> That it can do without changes in GDB.  For users to know
> that this usage is unsupported in GDB would be a big help.

gdb-inferior-io--init-proc silently punts when it cannot get a useful
name from process-tty-name.  It always did that.  This initialization
is done during initialization of the session, where displaying error
messages is tricky at best, and I also don't know what message to
display, TBH.  But patches are welcome.

> I would guess that there are fundamental reasons it is not supported

Yes: Emacs on Windows uses pipes to communicate with subprocesses,
because PTYs don't exist or cannot be used by Emacs.  So there's no
name of a TTY to use in the "set inferior-tty" command.

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