Re: cannot build xemacs-21.1.9 on mips-sgi-irix6.5

Martin Buchholz writes: :> >>>>> "JV" == Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; writes: :> :> JV> Simon Josefsson <jas(a)pdc.kth.se&gt; writes: :> >> Perhaps I should start by seeing what problems there might be :> >> compiling it with gcc then? :-) I'll do that now. :> :> JV> This is Max Matveev describing the invariant his code is expecting. :> JV> Does that hold when compiling with gcc? :> :> Sounds like a question of which _linker_ is used, not which compiler. :> Which one gcc uses is determined by the --with-gnu-ld flag used when :> configuring gcc. The system ld comes for free, so folks are more :> likely to install gcc than gnu ld (part of binutils). FWIW, I can build 21.1.9 on Irix with MIPSpro C and system ld. So, unless gcc does something interesting, I don't see how using gcc front-end could cause memory corruption. How about elfdump-ing the failing xemacs executable? max