Re: Reporting of "program no longer exists"

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:44:34AM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > > If I apply the patch below (from gdb-6.3-ia64-sigill-20051115.patch, a patch
>  > > for Fedora Core 5) I get:
>  > > 
>  > >   (gdb) r
>  > >   Starting program: /home/nickrob/emacs/src/emacs -geometry 80x40+0+0
>  > >   [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>  > >   [New Thread -1208269120 (LWP 8067)]
>  > >   [Switching to Thread -1208269120 (LWP 8067)]
>  > >   Breakpoint 3 at 0x80f654b: file xterm.c, line 7833.
>  > > 
>  > >   Program terminated with signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
>  > >   The program no longer exists.
>  > >   (gdb)
>  > 
>  > If you type Control-C, why did it kill emacs?  Shouldn't it break in
>  > the debugger, and then let you resume?
> 
> Emacs uses Control-C to for keyboard-quit (at least in the terminal version) so
> its .gdbinit has the line:
> 
> handle 2 noprint pass

Now I'm majorly confused; C-c is a prefix command in every emacs I've
ever used.  Anyway, I was just making sure that emacs exiting was what
you wanted to happen when you hit C-c, so that's OK.

> OK, I've done this with Jeff's name on the ChangeLog.

Thanks a lot.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery