From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6433 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2010 18:00:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 6419 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Nov 2010 18:00:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ausc60ps301.us.dell.com (HELO ausc60ps301.us.dell.com) (143.166.148.206) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:00:32 +0000 X-Loopcount0: from 10.152.240.141 Subject: Re: Hangs in GDB auto-complete Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Paul Koning In-Reply-To: <4CE2C45F.9010502@vmware.com> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:00:00 -0000 Cc: Tom Tromey , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kristoffer_Sj=F6=F6?= , "gdb@sourceware.org" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <92A8CBDB-2FAB-4A67-905B-4EA8F20B904D@dell.com> References: <4CE279B5.5010501@nada.kth.se> <4CE2C45F.9010502@vmware.com> To: Michael Snyder X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-11/txt/msg00071.txt.bz2 On Nov 16, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Michael Snyder wrote: > Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>>> "Kristoffer" =3D=3D Kristoffer Sj=F6=F6 writes: >> Kristoffer> After I upgraded my Ubuntu system to Lucid Lynx (10.04) >> What version of gdb? >> Kristoffer> It's very irritating, especially when I end up having to >> Kristoffer> kill GDB. >> You should be able to C-c out of any completion. >> If you can't, then that is a gdb bug. >> Kristoffer> I've no notion of the inner workings of GDB and no idea what >> Kristoffer> this is all due to, but perhaps someone here has some clue? >> We need more details, ideally enough to try to reproduce the problem. >> It could be any number of things, depending on the details of what you >> are doing. >=20 > I think I've seen something like this -- on large symbol files with many = symbols, gdb gets into a tight loop in completion that doesn't seem to resp= ond to ^C. Just speaking from memory ... >=20 Yes, that's something I run into every week or two, when I hit tab in the w= rong spot. paul