hrp@boring.cray.com (Hal Peterson) (09/22/89)
I am using GCC version 1.35 with this configuration:
./config.h: symbolic link to config/xm-m68k.h
./tm.h: symbolic link to config/tm-sun3-nfp.h
./md: symbolic link to config/m68k.md
./aux-output.c: symbolic link to config/out-m68k.c
I am running on a Sun-3/280 under SunOS 3.5.
The symptoms are complex: I built GNU Make versions 3.54 and 3.55
using gcc, and then used GNU Make to build TeXPS, a TeX PostScript
software package. During the TeXPS build, make dumped core. Gdb told
me that the cause of the SIGSEGV that killed make was a bad pointer.
From reading the Make code I could see that only a few lines before
the SIGSEGV the pointer had been set from an alloca.
I rebuilt Make with Sun's alloca and a similar crash happened, but
much earlier in the TeXPS build.
I rebuilt Make with the alloca.c from Emacs 18.54 and the build of
TeXPS ran to completion.
I realize that this is an inadequate bug report, but an adequate one
would include a TeXPS distribution. I welcome any suggestions for
smoking out this serious bug.
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