Re: ls -B freeze Emacs

[Garglemonster]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

    Eli> Garglemonster wrote:
    >>
    Eli> If you can rebuild Emacs, additionally remove the 2 fragments
    Eli> in unexelf.c conditioned on "#ifdef __sgi" that give special
    Eli> treatment to the ".got" sections.
    >>  not sure if i did that right, because emacs still crashes
    >> frequently.  i hope you don't mind my asking exactly which
    >> lines need to be commented.

    Eli> The two fragments that look like this:

    Eli> #if __sgi 
         
    Eli> || strcmp ((old_section_names + NEW_SECTION_H
    Eli> (nn).sh_name), "got.")  #endif

    Eli> If this doesn't help, please post the details of the crashes
    Eli> or any other problems to gnu.emacs.bug.  For crashes, a
    Eli> backtrace produced by a debugger from the core file is the
    Eli> most important information.


hmmm, that's what i commented.  the crashes have been happening mostly
in gnus, usually after gnus has been dormant for a while (but not
always).  these crashes usually invole 'g' and 'space' as in
space-to-scroll-article -> boom.  i've also had them in other modes,
though.

backtrace:

~$ gdb emacs core
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This GDB was configured as "mips-sgi-irix6.5"...
Core was generated by `emacs'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib32/libXm.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib32/libXmu.so...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib32/libXt.so...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib32/libXext.so...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib32/libtiff.so...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib32/libX11.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib32/libcurses.so...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib32/libm.so...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib32/libc.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib32/libgen.so...done.
#0  0x0fa44eb8 in kill () at regcomp.c:578
578     regcomp.c: No such file or directory.
        in regcomp.c
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0fa44eb8 in kill () at regcomp.c:578
#1  0x1015aa94 in fatal_error_signal () at emacs.c:354
#2  <signal handler called>
#3  0x0fa3c7b8 in _closedir () at closedir.c:37
(gdb) 


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