From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 13 11:34: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp7.xs4all.nl (smtp7.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3C914BD3 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 11:33:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from plm@smtp7.xs4all.nl) Received: from localhost. (s340-isdn558.dial.xs4all.nl [194.109.182.46]) by smtp7.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA11103 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:33:55 +0100 (CET) Received: (from plm@localhost) by localhost. (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA00410; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:33:55 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from plm) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: egcs unstable References: <87n1si2nu8.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id> From: Peter Mutsaers Date: 13 Nov 1999 20:33:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: Marcel Moolenaar's message of "Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:14:36 +0100" Message-ID: <873duaw5i5.fsf@muon.xs4all.nl> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> "MM" == Marcel Moolenaar writes: MM> After (by accident) compiling world (excluding kernel) with MM> optimization disabled (ie -O0) and installing the resulting MM> binaries, xemacs (21.1.7) coredumps with a bus error. I MM> recompiled and reinstalled xemacs and all was fine. Now, after MM> building and installing world (excluding kernel again) with MM> optimization (ie -O), xemacs does exactly the same: core dumps MM> on bus error. I'll recompile xemacs again and expect it to be MM> solved, but something is definitely broken: xemacs should not MM> core dump after recompiling world with only a simple change in MM> compiler flags. Are you sure this isn't a problem with xemacs itself? Reading the xemacs group, I read about crashes all the time on various platforms. It is getting worse with newer versions (the 19.x versions were pretty stable). Anyway I stick to good old GNU emacs (I can do without inline images for the time being) which is rock solid, also after -current 'make world's. -- Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust me, I know peter@mutsaers.com | the Netherlands | what I'm doing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message