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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: XEmacs Beta Test <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: gcc + no optimization = crash
Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
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I noticed while figuring out how to build XEmacs with gcc on Solaris,
that when built without optimization it crashes repeatably in
loadup.el like this:

Loading derived... (4296)
Loading minibuf... (23772)
Loading list-mode... (9128)
Loading modeline... (4736)Bus Error - core dumped

The backtrace in gdb shows that it's in the middle of garbage
collection, and I don't know how to track this down further.

Has anyone else had success building with 
gcc -fno-gnu-linker -g ?

Ben or Chuck, any advice?

Martin

