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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dumping bug explained?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:15:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5v2l0uh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jeabvycusd.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Mon\, 21 May 2007 12\:53\:22 +0200")

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>     ** coldwell@redhat.com, May 18: 22.0.99 emacs dumper (?) problem
>>     This seems to be caused by a binary incompatible change for the malloc
>>     implementation in glibc. The problem would occur when emacs is built
>>     on one system and used on another. See 
>>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239344#c60
>>     for a possible complete explanation.
>>
>> Are people sure that this is the cause of the problem?
>
> There is already a patch available, see
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2007-05/msg00015.html>.

To be precise (since RMS doesn't read URLs), this is a patch to glibc,
not Emacs.  However, there will be released versions of glibc out
there with this problem, so we should still document it in PROBLEMS.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-21 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-21 10:33 dumping bug explained? Richard Stallman
2007-05-21 10:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-05-21 14:15   ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2007-05-21 14:19     ` Chip Coldwell
2007-05-21 14:39       ` Chong Yidong
2007-05-21 14:52         ` Chip Coldwell
2007-05-21 16:40         ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-21 17:20           ` Chip Coldwell
2007-05-22 14:51           ` Richard Stallman

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