I have found the culprit: an Emacs patch with sets up low level
keyboard hooks which interferes with gdb. So nothing wrong with gdb itself.
Sorry for the noise,
Fabrice
2016-07-10 23:55 GMT+02:00 Fabrice Popineau <
[email protected]>:
> Hi Óscar,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion but it doesn't work.
> The symptoms are not the same as those that require winpty.
> When I run gdb on emacs and I break into some function, it is the whole
> desktop that
> becomes unresponsive. I need to resort to task manager to kill gdb.
> This is really weird.
>
> Fabrice
>
>
> 2016-07-08 14:05 GMT+02:00 Óscar Fuentes <[email protected]>:
>
>> Fabrice Popineau
>> <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > gdb src/emacs.exe
>> > break <some function>
>> > run -Q
>> > gdb breaks into the function
>> >
>> > and I cannot type anything in gdb anymore.
>> > Commands take forever to be displayed / executed.
>> > I have tried to run gdb from an MSYS2 mintty,
>> > a MinGW64 mintty and a cmd terminal without
>> > any better result.
>> >
>> > This used to work in the past, so what could have hchanged ?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any clue,
>>
>> Try
>>
>> winpty gdb src/emacs.exe
>>
>> from an MSYS2 mintty terminal.
>>
>>
>>
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