docs/72925: Developer's Handbook Ch. 11: replace gdb -k with kgdb

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:54:36AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:52:19 -0800
> Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Feb 24, 2005, at 2:55 AM, Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup wrote:
> > 
> > > A Problem in section 11.3 (Debugging a Crash Dump with DDD) still 
> > > remains.
> > > `ddd -k` passes the `-k` to gdb which doesn't recognize it anymore 
> > > (aswe are using kgdb now).
> > > Specifying `--debugger kgdb` will pass a `-q -fullname` to kgdb which 
> > > kgdb doesn't recognize.
> > >
> > > Maybe it would be the simplest approach to let kgdb support this 
> > > options for compatibility
> > > (maybe just ignore them) (marcel?)
> > 
> > They seem useful to support. In fact the -fullname (or -f) option
> > is to be passed to the GDB core and not being ignored as it affects
> > how stack frames are displayed. This allows DDD or Emacs to extract
> > the file name, line number and column number.
> > 
> > > Perhaps we should file a separate PR to not forget about it?
> > 
> > Yes, please. I'll see if getting it in 5.4 is viable...
> 
> I've added a note for < 5.3 compatibility.  Should I update
> the part about DDD or wait?

I guess that depends on how you're going to update the part about
DDD... :-)

It looks like I might be able to add the options in time, so it's
probably a good idea to wait until the mights and looks-likes have
been transmogrified into something less.. well.. jelly. In other
words: into something more substantial and with more definition :-)

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