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diff --git a/doc/emacs/building.texi b/doc/emacs/building.texi index 7e250bf4250..5cd3221928f 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/building.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/building.texi @@ -912,6 +912,7 @@ height and width values during the debugging session. @cindex GDB User Interface layout @vindex gdb-many-windows +@vindex gdb-show-main If the variable @code{gdb-many-windows} is @code{nil} (the default), @kbd{M-x gdb} normally displays only the GUD interaction buffer. However, if the variable @code{gdb-show-main} is also non-@code{nil}, @@ -1011,6 +1012,15 @@ allows you to go backwards, which can be useful for running through code that has already executed, in order to examine its execution in more detail. +@vindex gdb-mi-decode-strings + If the file names of the source files are shown with octal escapes, +set the variable @code{gdb-mi-decode-strings} to the appropriate +coding-system, most probably @code{utf-8}. (This is @code{nil} by +default because GDB may emit octal escapes in situations where +decoding is undesirable, and also because the program being debugged +might use an encoding different from the one used to encode non-ASCII +file names on your system.) + @node Breakpoints Buffer @subsubsection Breakpoints Buffer @@ -1150,6 +1160,11 @@ also updates the Locals buffer (described in the next section). @end iftex +@vindex gdb-stack-buffer-addresses + If you want the frame address to be shown each stack frame, +customize the variable @code{gdb-stack-buffer-addresses} to a +non-@code{nil} value. + @node Other GDB Buffers @subsubsection Other GDB Buffers |