Re: runaway emacs process

[Nick Roberts]

 > Emacs seems to be running continuously, hogging 100% of one
 > processor. gdb also runs periodically, using about 1% of a
 > processor. However, gdb does not appear to be working correctly. In
 > the gud buffer, it seems that gdb has been stopped since friday
 > night. I last used it then to print a value. Now, when I try to print the
 > same value, it prints a breakpoint summary instead:
 > 
 > (gdb) p *ctarget
 > Num Type           Disp Enb Address    What
 > 2   breakpoint     keep y   0x0002755c in rcData::set_rc(char*, bool) at 
 > ../src/driver/bit_util.cc:1010
 >      breakpoint already hit 1 time

This is very probably a bug in gdb-ui.el.  When gdb is doing nothing, the
variables gdb-input-queue and gdb-pending-triggers should be nil.  What are
the values in your case?  Which other GDB buffers are you using?  (Do C-x C-b
and look for "*.... of bits*").

To debug this properly we need a precise recipe.  Can you post a simple
program and configuration where this happens?


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