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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:38:27PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 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...

very annoying if i'm running full-screen on console with output to
/dev/null, and suddenly the movie freezes but won't exit. i can't see
to type anything and can't tell that gdb is running, and can't even
tell after switching to another vc. very very evil! :)

rich