From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Horsley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: unexelf.c maybe broke between 21.1 and 21.2 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:47:13 GMT Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208281347.NAA06330@amber2.ccur.com> Reply-To: Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030542424 26135 127.0.0.1 (28 Aug 2002 13:47:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:47:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17k39v-0006me-00 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:46:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17k3BI-0006ms-00; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:48:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17k3AV-0006kR-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17k3AR-0006jm-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from users.ccur.com ([208.248.32.211] helo=amber2.ccur.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 17k3AQ-0006j1-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:47:30 -0400 Original-Received: by amber2.ccur.com (8.6.10/CCC-4.1) id NAA06330; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:47:13 GMT Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3335 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3335 The unexelf.c in emacs-21.2 fails to build a functional object file on my system. The resulting emacs always coredumps because none of its globals actually have correctly initialized values in them. When I copy the old emacs-21.1/src/unexelf.c file into my 21.2 directory and rebuild, the resulting emacs seems to work perfectly. Unfortunately, when I compare the old and new code, I see no obvious reason for it to act any differently, perhaps it is just an accident that one works and the other doesn't because the size of the executable changes with different code and things come out aligned better, but I thought I should report it anyway in case other folks have elf dumping problems, perhaps we can figure out why someday (but there is no way I have enough time to debug it now, especially since I came up with the workaround of uisng the old code :-). -- Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com \\\\ Will no one rid me of Concurrent Computers, Ft. Lauderdale, FL \\\\ this troublesome Me: http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/ \\\\ autoconf? Project Vote Smart: http://www.vote-smart.org \\\\ !!!!!