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To: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
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Subject: Re: 20.3-b23 crash on Solaris and sparcworks 
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 11:44:03 -0400
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From: Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se>

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:


    Colin> SL Baur writes:
    >> Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:

    >>> One person here at causes XEmacs 19.14, 19.15, 20.2, and 20.3-b23 to
    >>> crash when dragging the scrollbar when using sparcworks debugger.
    >>> The crash is repeatable, but it happens at random times when dragging
    >>> the scrollbar.

    >>> #3  0x16b86c in add_margin_runes (dl=0x7f41f8, db=0x77f7d0, start=4, count=1, glyph_type=1, side=2, window=274385920)
    >>> at /home/unix/toy/apps/xemacs-20.3-b23/src/redisplay.c:2755

    >> There have been dozens (if not hundreds -- I didn't have access to the
    >> bug reports in the summer after 19.14 release) of reports of crashes
    >> at this line, all on Suns.  Maybe someday someone with a Sun will
    >> figure out what the problem is.

    Colin> Of course it's only on SUNs -- sparcworks only runs on a SUN.

    Colin> My solution to this problem is similar to Rick Cambell's solution.

I seemed to have missed that.  What was his solution?

    Colin> Maybe someone that actually cares about sparcworks working properly can
    Colin> fix this bug.  After that, maybe he can also fix sparcworks to allow the 
    Colin> dbx window and process i/o window to be XEmacs buffers, and then people
    Colin> will want to use sparcworks.

It's used here because someone is running Sun C++ and gdb doesn't grok 
it, otherwise, he'd use gdb.  I don't use sparcworks because I run
gcc/g++ and gdb.

Ray

