From: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: -znocombreloc?
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 11:24:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPM58ohEg6ZhCgQF2LKGpfdUqaSOHW4mMxVL0HR+==+-EG+XHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPM58ohG65M2KUs9x3=YiJB1A+4iY_owiqtBnXSwt-XCUn-pTQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 4 December 2016 at 10:36, Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 December 2016 at 05:36, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>> Daniel Colascione wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone remember _why_ temacs segfaults on startup unless we give ld
>>> this
>>> option?
>>
>>
>> It doesn't segfault for me, even when I build with -zcombreloc. I think
>> -znocombreloc worked around bugs in now-obsolete versions of the GNU linker.
>> See, for example:
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2004-02/msg00278.html
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2003-05/msg00627.html
>>
>> Looking at recent GCC documentation it appears that this old hack should not
>> matter now, so I'm inclined to remove it, as in the proposed patch
>> (attached), which I tested on Fedora 24 x86-64 but have not installed.
>
> Not sure where GCC and x86-64 come into it if this was for the Solaris native
> linker. (Is Solaris still a thing?)
Sorry! I misread the old posts you referenced. Please ignore my reply,
it's not useful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-04 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-04 0:12 -znocombreloc? Daniel Colascione
2016-12-04 5:36 ` -znocombreloc? Paul Eggert
2016-12-04 10:36 ` -znocombreloc? Richard Copley
2016-12-04 11:24 ` Richard Copley [this message]
2016-12-04 15:34 ` -znocombreloc? Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-04 17:14 ` -znocombreloc? Daniel Colascione
2016-12-05 2:47 ` -znocombreloc? Paul Eggert
2016-12-07 23:58 ` -znocombreloc? Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
2016-12-08 1:19 ` -znocombreloc? Paul Eggert
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2016-12-05 3:23 -znocombreloc? Ali Bahrami
2016-12-05 15:50 ` -znocombreloc? Eli Zaretskii
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