Re: GC bug

drv> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. drv> 0x0808c08e in mark_string (obj={...}) drv> at /usr/local/src/XEmacs-21.5/src/alloc.c:1874 drv> [ weird: it's DECLARE_FIXED_TYPE_ALLOC (string, Lisp_String); ] Our dlmalloc code is alleged broken (by Wolfram.Gloger(a)malloc.de), specifically the use of mmap, and I've seen breakage for glibc > 2.2.5. Try --pdump and/or --with-system-malloc for some relief, but I don't think they actually are fixes. I don't know why pdump helps, but --with-system-malloc basically has the effect of bumping the mmap threshold to 1MB, and XEmacs rarely mallocs that much at once, we prefer to do it a cons at a time (but they're big conses ;-). -- 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.