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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Cc: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: Repeatable crash with union type
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "Hrv" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

Hrv> Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:
>> I've added this to internals.texi:
>> 
>> Use @samp{--with-union-type=yes} occasionally to build XEmacs, for
>> improved compile-time type checking.  This is not the default, because
>> it is a little slower, and (more importantly) gcc generates buggy code
>> that causes XEmacs to crash when the combination @samp{--with-gcc}
>> @samp{--with-union-type} @samp{--with-mule} is used.  This is not a
>> problem with other compilers, such as SunPro cc.
>> 
>> Ben sez:
Hrv> [...]

Hrv> Ben is wrong.  The same crash happens with SunPro cc.  This is an
Hrv> XEmacs bug -- nothing more and nothing less.

Ben maintains his opinion - prove him wrong by finding the bug!

Martin

