From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: command and doco for valgrind Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:15:13 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <16383.8247.758985.411260@nick.uklinux.net> <9743-Sat10Jan2004143440+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <16393.51090.62851.168340@nick.uklinux.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074453663 29625 80.91.224.253 (18 Jan 2004 19:21:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:21:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 18 20:20:58 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiITi-0006PD-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:20:58 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiITh-0002ju-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:20:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AiISu-0002Xe-GQ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:20:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AiISS-0002TM-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:19:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AiIQ2-0001d4-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:17:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AiIPo-0001bp-Sw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:16:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AiIO9-00060O-AB; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:15:13 -0500 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on 18 Jan 2004 09:25:50 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19241 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19241 I'm not too surprised that unexec runs into trouble with valgrind. unexec is not a 100% implementation of undumping; it handles only the cases that people needed to make it handle. If valgrind moves outside that envelope, problems occur. It may be possible to debug the problem by running temacs with args -l loadup. That way you can do the debugging without ever dumping Emacs.