Re: cores and gdb
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 04:00:40PM -0700, SL Baur wrote:
Larry Ayers <layers(a)marktwain.net> writes:
> had XEmacs-21.0-b38-pre2 dump core several times when I was
> accessing the "Recent Files->Non-permanent entries" menu.
...
> Any suggestions?
I don't know what recent files is, but if it involves doing disk file
reading while creating a menu, I'm interested in more details about
the problem. I have circumstantial evidence of memory corruption
problems in this area.
> The crashes stopped when I manually edited ~/.recent-files.el
> and removed most of the non-permanent entries, several of
> which pointed to files which have been deleted.
Hmm.
Recent-files.el is in the edit-utils package, version 1.20. It
keeps a record of recent files which have been accessed, and
files can be marked as "permanent", which will put them in a
sub-menu which will always be available. Other entries have
a maximum number, newer files replacing the oldest. I haven't
had a core-dump since cleaning out the non-existent entries
(files which have been deleted). What I'd really like to know is
what config switches need to be set when compiling XEmacs so that
I will have core-files which gdb can use. I get this
error-message from gdb: file not in executable format.
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