bug#20614: Segmentation fault when building on Power8 Little Endian

[Petr Hracek <phracek@redhat.com>]

On 09/23/2015 01:14 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: 20614@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Petr Hracek <phracek@redhat.com>
>> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:00:03 +0200
>>
>> Nowadays with binutils-2.23.52.0.1-54 I am not able to build emacs at all.
> What does this mean, exactly?  Does Emacs crash during dumping?  If
> so, a good starting point is to show the backtrace from the crash, and
> the values of the variables involved in the crash.
>
>> What I can do is to add several tracking information like traces which can be
>> added to source code during the build.
>> Any advice would be welcome and I will do it really soon.
>> Question from my side, how to add traces so that I am able to see data?
> If you run Emacs under GDB, you don't need any traces: GDB allows to
> look at variables without any tracing code.
I will investigate is a bit more.
How to call dump when emacs or temacs is buildup?
Machine is already prepared.
I have seen some code in loadup.el lisp file and would like to do it 
from command line.

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