From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Horsley Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: RE: unexelf.c maybe broke between 21.1 and 21.2 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:16:53 -0400 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030544214 30995 127.0.0.1 (28 Aug 2002 14:16:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 17k3cp-000836-00 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:16:51 +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 17k3eC-0003bm-00; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:18:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17k3d7-0003YH-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17k3d4-0003Xj-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.ccur.com ([208.248.32.212] helo=exchange.ccur.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17k3d3-0003Xa-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:17:05 -0400 Original-Received: by exchange.ccur.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:17:03 -0400 Original-To: 'Eli Zaretskii' , Horsley Tom X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) 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:3337 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3337 > > 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. > > Thank you for your report, but please tell what system is that. (M-x > report-emacs-bug RET would provide this and other relevant info.) I could tell you, but it wouldn't really help because it isn't a system that emacs knows about anyway :-). (It is far less trouble to apply the patches to each releases configure scripts than to try to find all the lawyers I need to submit the patches permanently to the FSF). However, here is what it reports: In GNU Emacs 21.2.2 (powerpc-concurrent-powermax, Motif Version 2.1.0) of 2002-08-28 on amber2 configured using `configure --prefix=/usr/tools/emacs-21.2 --with-x --with-x-toolkit=motif --x-libraries=/usr/lib --x-includes=/usr/include' 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: nil locale-coding-system: nil default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: All I know for sure is that if I debug temacs and stop at the beginning of the unexec routine, I can look at various local variables (like Vmessage_buffer_name, etc) and see reasonable values. If I debug emacs and look at the same global variables, they contain trash.