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diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/gud.el b/lisp/progmodes/gud.el index 356cd3e0532..9bf739463ed 100644 --- a/lisp/progmodes/gud.el +++ b/lisp/progmodes/gud.el @@ -1182,36 +1182,30 @@ containing the executable being debugged." ;; correct line number, but life's too short. ;; d.love@dl.ac.uk (Dave Love) can be blamed for this -(defvar gud-irix-p - (and (string-match "^mips-[^-]*-irix" system-configuration) - (not (string-match "irix[6-9]\\.[1-9]" system-configuration))) +(defvar gud-irix-p nil "Non-nil to assume the interface appropriate for IRIX dbx. This works in IRIX 4, 5 and 6, but `gud-dbx-use-stopformat-p' provides a better solution in 6.1 upwards.") -(defvar gud-dbx-use-stopformat-p - (string-match "irix[6-9]\\.[1-9]" system-configuration) +(defvar gud-dbx-use-stopformat-p nil "Non-nil to use the dbx feature present at least from Irix 6.1 whereby $stopformat=1 produces an output format compatible with `gud-dbx-marker-filter'.") -;; [Irix dbx seems to be a moving target. The dbx output changed +;; [Irix dbx seemed to be a moving target. The dbx output changed ;; subtly sometime between OS v4.0.5 and v5.2 so that, for instance, ;; the output from `up' is no longer spotted by gud (and it's probably ;; not distinctive enough to try to match it -- use C-<, C-> ;; exclusively) . For 5.3 and 6.0, the $curline variable changed to ;; `long long'(why?!), so the printf stuff needed changing. The line ;; number was cast to `long' as a compromise between the new `long -;; long' and the original `int'. This is reported not to work in 6.2, +;; long' and the original `int'. This was reported not to work in 6.2, ;; so it's changed back to int -- don't make your sources too long. -;; From Irix6.1 (but not 6.0?) dbx supports an undocumented feature +;; From Irix6.1 (but not 6.0?) dbx supported an undocumented feature ;; whereby `set $stopformat=1' reportedly produces output compatible ;; with `gud-dbx-marker-filter', which we prefer. ;; The process filter is also somewhat ;; unreliable, sometimes not spotting the markers; I don't know -;; whether there's anything that can be done about that. It would be -;; much better if SGI could be persuaded to (re?)instate the MIPS -;; -emacs flag for gdb-like output (which ought to be possible as most -;; of the communication I've had over it has been from sgi.com).] +;; whether there's anything that can be done about that.] ;; this filter is influenced by the xdb one rather than the gdb one (defun gud-irixdbx-marker-filter (string) |