From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bootstrap & memory allocation troubles Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:26:22 -0500 Message-ID: <8764onho29.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <20060113155227.GA8439@flame.pc> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137187871 19986 80.91.229.2 (13 Jan 2006 21:31:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:31:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 13 22:31:05 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExWVg-0008MV-5c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:31:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExWXp-0006gG-60 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:33:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ExVWc-0000lu-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:27:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ExVWY-0000lC-TB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:27:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExVWY-0000ku-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:27:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [18.19.6.82] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ExVZa-0006XV-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:30:58 -0500 Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C67E11208A9; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:26:22 -0500 (EST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20060113155227.GA8439@flame.pc> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:52:28 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49021 Archived-At: Giorgos Keramidas writes: > Recently, the malloc() implementation in FreeBSD changed to a new > implementation by Jason Evans, and a posix_memalign() implementation > was added to the standard library of the system. > > This seems to cause bootstrap problems for cvs-emacs now, but I'm not > sure if this is something we should fix in Emacs or in the libc of > FreeBSD. The gdb trace that shows the problem is listed below, but > I'd be grateful for any hints related to fixing this. > > Any ideas how the current posix_memalign() implementation could affect > this, and/or tips to debug it? BTW, the backtrace looks rather similar to the crashes people have been experiencing with Linux hyperthreading/smp on some suse systems.