Re: Enabling --enable-check-lisp-object-type by default on x86 and AMD64

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 11:08:23 -0700
> 
> > Only partially.  People who report backtraces seldom bother to start
> > GDB from the Emacs's src directory, let alone source .gdbinit by hand.
> > Moreover, latest versions of GDB refuse to auto-load .gdbinit files
> > from random directories, unless you put some magic in your ~/.gdbinit
> > (which most people don't).
> 
> This problem is not new.

It isn't new, but previously it only affected displaying Lisp data in
human-readable form.  Now it will also affect backtraces.

> How about using GDB pretty-printers instead?

This is better, but how sure we are people's GDB is built with Python
support?

> E.g., add something like the attached file as src/gdb-pretty.py, and
> add the line "source gdb-pretty.py" to src/.gdbinit.

Why not make this part of .gdbinit itself?