bug#3650: M-x gdb unusable on Windows

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Is this still an issue on modern versions of Emacs?
>
> Most of the problems are gone, not in the least because we use
> gdb-mi.el nowadays.  But some are still there, although I don't see
> what we can do about that:
>
>   . the initial directory is still where the binary lives, but that is
>     not Windows specific: Emacs behaves like that on Posix platforms
>     as well
>
>   . pp and other similar commands in .gdbinit don't work, but that's
>     AFAIU because gdb-mi cannot separate the GDB output from the
>     program's output on MS-Windows
>
> All the other problems are gone, and the corresponding features work
> as expected.

Since the reported errors are gone, and the two remaining ones isn't
something we can do anything about, I'm therefore closing this bug
report.

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