Re: union type is evil, redux

mb> I've compiled successfully with union type for many years, mb> with multiple C and C++ compilers, without any problems. It mb> was a standard part of my acceptance tests before doing a mb> release of XEmacs. Build is one thing---I've caught a fair number of silly typos with union type, just as I'm sure you did. I always build with union type, and I have yet to see a build problem with union type that wasn't either (a) a silly typo or (b) also reflected in the integer type build. Run is another thing. Ben claims he sees intermittent (== not during build, presumably) crashes when building with union type, not when building without. I can't verify that integer type doesn't crash, as I normally run the union type build. But I do get "stack stomped" kinds of crashes very intermittently, especially when heavily using Gnus. You're a VM user, right? It seems like the only thing that reliably gets XEmacs in trouble is Gnus. :-/ -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.