Emacs .gdbinit incompatible with latest GDB

[Jan Kratochvil]

Due to applied GDB patch
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2007-01/msg00533.html

the recent GDB has problems running GDB `xbacktrace' on EMACS
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2007-02/msg00252.html

provided the following patch fixing the problem, either in
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2007-02/msg00257.html

or an alternative one herein:

2007-02-24  Jan Kratochvil  <address@hidden>

            * .gdbinit: Fixup compatibility with recent GDB re `unsigned char 
*'.

--- emacs-22.0.93/src/.gdbinit-orig     2007-01-21 23:51:40.000000000 +0100
+++ emacs-22.0.93/src/.gdbinit          2007-02-24 22:13:26.000000000 +0100
@@ -977,7 +977,7 @@
 end
 
 define xprintstr
-  set $data = $arg0->data
+  set $data = (char *) $arg0->data
   output ($arg0->size > 1000) ? 0 : ($data[0])@($arg0->size_byte < 0 ? 
$arg0->size & ~gdb_array_mark_flag : $arg0->size_byte) end
 



In GNU Emacs 22.0.93.1 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.9)
 of 2007-02-13 on hs20-bc2-3.build.redhat.com
X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
configured using `configure  '--build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 
'--host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 
'--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' 
'--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' 
'--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' 
'--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-pop' '--with-sound' '--with-gtk' 
'build_alias=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 
'target_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF 
-DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=16777216 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 
-fexceptions --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic 
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  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_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

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