On Sat, Jun 03 2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Run temacs under GDB, and type these commands:
>
>     (gdb) b Fload
>     (gdb) commands
>     >p file
>     >xstring
>     >end
>     (gdb) r -batch -l loadup
>
> Then, whenever Fload is called, GDB will display the name of the file
> that is about to be loaded.  When it shows "emacs-lisp/byte-run", type
> the following commands:
>
>     (gdb) set height 0
>     (gdb) b alloc.c:4718
>     (gdb) commands
>     >bt 2
>     >xbacktrace
>     >continue
>     >end
>     (gdb) c
>
> This will run for a while until it finishes loading byte-run, and stop
> on the next call to Fload.  At that time, please copy everything that
> GDB displayed until that point, and put it somewhere on the Web where
> I can read it (or post here).  I will then compare with what I see on
> my system.  (If possible, please do this with a 32-bit build, as my
> access top a 64-bit host is sporadic.)

Attached you'll find the gzipped gdb log (from a fresh bootstrapped
build on 32-bit GNU/Linux).

BTW, the above is on SUSE 9.2.  On SUSE 10.0 I don't observe an
overflow.  I don't have gcc version of SUSE 10.0 here, but I can
provide it later if it's of interest.

Bye, Reiner.
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