Re: 23.0.60; gdb not running the program first time around

[robert marshall]

Nick Roberts wrote:
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> Does it say [ready] here in the mode-line?
>
>   
It does - I should have said that it doesn't happen every time I start 
up a gdb buffer

>  >   C-c C-cQuit          <------------- sits here until I C-c C-c
>  > (gdb) run
>  > Starting program: /home/robert/IPSA/IPSA+1.6/IPSAplus/ipsa-so 
>  > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>  > [New Thread -1231702336 (LWP 8910)]
>  > Qt: gdb: -nograb added to command-line options.
>  >    Use the -dograb option to enforce grabbing.
>
> Do you have a .gdbinit file in this directory or $HOME?
>
>   

No
> If so, what happens if you do "gdb --annotate=3 -nx ipsa-so"?
>
> If this works, what do you have in your .gdbinit?
>
> If it still doesn't work, what happens if you also start with "emacs -Q"?
>
>   
I've just managed to replicate this behaviour when starting with -Q
I think it happens when I type 'run' - at the prompt (already there in 
the buffer) - when the status line still says [initializing], so it 
changes to [ready] at around the same time as I press 'enter'
ipsa-so is a fairly large file (c 90MB) and it takes around 2 sec from 
entering the 'gdb --annotate...' line to get to gdb showing [ready],  
I've just tried to do the same thing with the emacs  binary and that 
starts up far too fast to get the same problem!

Robert