Re: update: building emacs-21.2

["Jochen Küpper" <jochen@unc.edu>]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:36:49 -0600 Richard Stallman wrote:

Yep, to busy... I'll keep working on my schedule. Here's a quick
update.

Richard> Since this does not fail for most everyone else, it probably
Richard> depends on some peculiar local situation. Unfortunately that
Richard> means only you can debug it (or someone else who happens to
Richard> observe the same problem). I suggest you try running the
Richard> command temacs -batch -l loadup under GDB with a breakpoint
Richard> at Fsignal and try to debug it.

The problem seems to be related to gcc's -malign-double switch,
independent of optimization level. 

I had fired up a debugger and seen where we are coming from, but I
need some time to dig into emacs' source. Hopefully I'll have some
passion later this month to work on it (I should have, and I am
planning to do it.).

Greetings,
Jochen
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