unexelf.c failure on IRIX

[David Kaelbling]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (mips-sgi-irix6.5)
 of 2001-11-19 on orchietta.hudson.sgi.com
configured using `configure  mips-sgi-irix6.5 --prefix=/usr/freeware 
--libdir=/usr/freeware/lib32 --without-gcc --with-pop --with-x 
--with-x-toolkit=no'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I recently built emacs 21.1 on SGI IRIX 6.5, and found that if I
enabled an x-toolkit (any kind), the resulting dumped emacs would die
at startup with a bus error.  Some trial and error showed that the
following patch let it work again:

--- ./src/unexelf.c     Tue Sep 26 09:01:57 2000
+++ ../emacs-21.1/./src/unexelf.c       Tue Nov 20 14:23:39 2001
@@ -994,6 +994,10 @@
                      ".lit4")
          || !strcmp ((old_section_names + NEW_SECTION_H (n).sh_name),
                      ".lit8")
+#if __sgi
+         || !strcmp ((old_section_names + NEW_SECTION_H (n).sh_name),
+                     ".got")
+#endif
          || !strcmp ((old_section_names + NEW_SECTION_H (n).sh_name),
                      ".sdata1")
          || !strcmp ((old_section_names + NEW_SECTION_H (n).sh_name),
@@ -1172,6 +1176,10 @@
                        ".lit4")
            || !strcmp ((old_section_names + NEW_SECTION_H (nn).sh_name),
                        ".lit8")
+#if __sgi
+           || !strcmp ((old_section_names + NEW_SECTION_H (nn).sh_name),
+                       ".got")
+#endif
            || !strcmp ((old_section_names + NEW_SECTION_H (nn).sh_name),
                        ".sdata1")
            || !strcmp ((old_section_names + NEW_SECTION_H (nn).sh_name),



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