[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] automatic gdb attaching

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Wed Oct 20 12:38:27 CEST 2004


Hi,

>>>I would recommend all developers to test it as I intend to make it
>>>default for everyone with a .developer file ;-)
>>
>>Reading the patch I see that you're not making it default for everyone
>>with .developer. You're making it obligatory for everyone with it. Is
>>this desireable?
> 
> no, very undesirable. i hate gdb and (almost) never use it. if
> something crashes i rtfs or put a printf at the appropriate location.

1) gdb can help to find out the appropriate location.
2) Also it is just an extended signal handler and you can just type quit 
to make it continue normally.
3) can be disabled by commmand-line parameter.

Anyway, here is a fixed version...

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger
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