From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GC crashes Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 19:39:11 +0200 Message-ID: <01c4dd4c$Blat.v2.2.2$f8f56020@zahav.net.il> References: <200412071754.06950.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <16822.6213.912468.936725@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200412080217.55955.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <16822.44497.636006.297768@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102528871 6427 80.91.229.6 (8 Dec 2004 18:01:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 18:01:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pogonyshev@gmx.net, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 19:01:03 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cc5oJ-0007Db-00 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:41:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cc5yA-0000rE-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:51:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cc5xX-0000qs-Pa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:50:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cc5xW-0000q3-Ai for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:50:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cc5xW-0000q0-6J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:50:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.15] (helo=balder.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cc5nP-0003z2-Iz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.148.214]) by balder.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id DWZ49183 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:38:52 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Nick Roberts X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.2.2 In-reply-to: <16822.44497.636006.297768@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:31:29 +1300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30872 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30872 > From: Nick Roberts > Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:31:29 +1300 > Cc: "Kim F. Storm" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, > Paul Pogonyshev > > XEmacs doesn't seem to work with Valgrind, but assuming it dumps the > executable in the same way, thats not surprising. AFAIK, XEmacs uses a different dumping method, at least on modern platforms. > I feel the code that causes a problem is probably in unexec.c, or possibly > emacs.c but this is just a guess and not a very educated one at that. These problems were reported and discussed in the past, so if someone would like to work on fixing these problems, they would be better off if they first search the emacs-devel archives.