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: Compile failure on IRIX 6.5 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:21:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20050221025912.08f3701a.daichi.k@dance.ocn.ne.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108987275 9543 80.91.229.2 (21 Feb 2005 12:01:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:01:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 21 13:01:15 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3CFR-0001Q1-Gv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:01:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3CWN-0006Z0-8A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:18:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D3BEV-0003to-UT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:56:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D3BEU-0003sE-Nq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3BA2-0002DB-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:51:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D3AhU-0001xe-5p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:22:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D3AhT-0004uc-GK; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:21:59 -0500 Original-To: Daichi Kawahata In-reply-to: <20050221025912.08f3701a.daichi.k@dance.ocn.ne.jp> (message from Daichi Kawahata on Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:59:12 +0900) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33669 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33669 This looks like stack overflow printing an object that contains a pointer to itself. Could you verify this was stack overflow? What is the value of Vprint_length? Also, run-time debugging log with dbx (gdb won't work), manually newlined: Why won't GDB work? Have you tried installing the latest GDB? If that still fails, maybe it is a GDB bug--would you please report the GDB bug? Anyway, it is not a bug that Emacs can crash if you print a cyclic structure with the wrong settings. The question is, why is that happening? The crucial point for finding the Emacs bug is, what Lisp program is trying to print something, and why, and why is that object such as to get an error in printing. For this, it would be useful to look at the log of output from bootstrapping shortly before the crash.