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#9858
24.0.90; M-x gdb breaks if gdb-show-main is non-nil but there's no file loaded
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Reported by: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:13:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 24.0.90
Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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On 10/24/2011 12:10 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> The info node GDB Graphical Interface File > GDB User Interface Layout
> suggests setting the (customizable) variable gdb-show-main non-nil in
> order to have the source buffer displayed on startup of M-x gdb. But if
> you do this and then run M-x gdb without specifying a file to debug, M-x
> gdb doesn't initialize properly, and the *Messages* buffer contains
>
> error in process filter: gud-find-file: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
The following patch seems to fix it. OK to apply?
=== modified file 'lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el'
--- lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el 2011-10-06 16:11:38 +0000
+++ lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el 2011-10-24 19:17:07 +0000
@@ -4121,7 +4121,7 @@
(if gdb-many-windows
(gdb-setup-windows)
(gdb-get-buffer-create 'gdb-breakpoints-buffer)
- (if gdb-show-main
+ (if (and gdb-show-main gdb-main-file)
(let ((pop-up-windows t))
(display-buffer (gud-find-file gdb-main-file))))))
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