salzman%aja@RAND.ORG (Isaac) (10/27/88)
>I managed to get X running after renaming my .Xdefaults. I can then >get an xterm but when I do "xrdb foo" where foo was my .Xdefaults and >I do "xrdb -query", I get only one line out of my .Xdefaults line. >So there's something wrong out there. I compiled everything with -O >and I suspect there's a bug in the optimizer. You got it: -O screws things up big time on Sun 4's. The part of xterm that gets hosed and causes it to dump code (can't remember what signal it gets) is in the scroll bar code. I'll bet that if you start xterm w/o scroll bars you'll be ok. Try it with scroll bars and it'll crash. Compile without -O and it should run fine - at least it has been here, for the last 3 1/2 months.... I'd advise anyone who's working with a Sun 4 to avoid using -O on anything until Sun comes up with a reliable optimizer for their sparc C compiler. -- * Isaac J. Salzman ---- * The RAND Corporation - Information Sciences Dept. /o o/ / * 1700 Main St., PO Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90406-2138 | v | | * AT&T: +1 213-393-0411 x6421 or x7923 (ISL lab) _| |_/ * ARPA: salzman@RAND.ORG or salzman@rand-unix.ARPA / | | * UUCP: ...!{cbosgd,decvax,sdcrdcf}!randvax!salzman | | |