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authorGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2018-05-07 07:50:49 -0700
committerGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2018-05-07 07:50:49 -0700
commit766b057e41df7316808ec7658836fda75facda75 (patch)
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parent6e362a32bc9d21f73a0f29ca6f45481edeea6f29 (diff)
parent1d732d699d63b5dbfa7d0a0f44e6119d58f852bc (diff)
downloademacs-766b057e41df7316808ec7658836fda75facda75.tar.gz
Merge from origin/emacs-26
1d732d6 (origin/emacs-26) Fix gud-statement for pdb 91a68b5 ; * msdos/INSTALL: Add info about GCC versions. 7ddcc9a Document 'custom-group' 58f9e15 A minor addition to etc/DEBUG 4590414 Avoid errors in ispell.el when Enchant returns empty extra chars d0d75f9 Make 'ispell-initialize-spellchecker-hook' work again b90ce66 Handle selected_window change in prepare_menu_bars (Bug#31312) 79ad0b3 ; * INSTALL: Fix Emacs version number. (Bug#31358) 91de88b Fix report-emacs-bug via mailclient on MS-Windows f4b5ff2 Port collation tests to glibc 2.27
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@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ described in the node "Auto-loading safe path" in the GDB user manual.
If nothing else helps, type "source /path/to/.gdbinit RET" at the GDB
prompt, to unconditionally load the GDB init file.
+Running GDB on macOS sometimes brings an error message like this:
+
+ Unable to find Mach task port for process-id NNN: (os/kern) failure (0x5).
+
+To overcome this, search the Internet for the phrase "Unable to find
+Mach task port for process-id", and you will find detailed
+instructions to follow.
+
*** Use the Emacs GDB UI front-end
We recommend using the GUI front-end for GDB provided by Emacs. With