Re: Emacs GDB garbled output

[Augusto Fraga Giachero]

You nailed it!

I was invoking gdb with 'M-x gdb'. Now using 'M-x gud-gdb' instead 
solved all my problems.

Thank you very much!

Augusto Fraga Giachero.

On 07-03-2017 12:48, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Augusto Fraga Giachero <augustofg96@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 09:08:33 -0300
> >
> > I've been using Emacs + GDB (GUD) for debugging programs written in C
> > since more or less 2 years. I generally recompile my projects by just
> > invoking 'make' in the GDB shell.
> >
> > What bothers me is that when the build process outputs a lot of text in
> > a short period of time (such a compile error or warnings) the GDB shell
> > doesn't catch all the text, and sometimes part of the text is displayed
> > when the next command is executed. For example:
> >
> > GDB under Emacs:
> > (gdb) make
> > gcc -MMD -c -g -Wall -I inc/ -Og src/testlib.c -o src/testlib.o
> > src/testlib.c:4:1: error: expected ‘ int isPrime(uint64_t num)
> >    stop
> > make: (gdb)
> Which Emacs command do you use to invoke GDB?  Is it "M-x gud-gdb" or
> "M-x gdb"?
>
> If you used the latter, try the former instead.