Re: [PATCH] latest patch for kkcc etc.

Stephen> FUT xemacs-beta. Ben> i did test this non-kkcc. in fact i tested it in quite a Ben> number of configurations, so i'm surprised to see that it Ben> broke. how did it break? Stephen> Well, for starters the MS-only (?) functions strupr and strlwr were Stephen> left naked in lisp.h, breaking the link. The crash I'm getting is Stephen> Fatal error: assertion failed, file /coda/Software/XEmacs/21.5/src/alloc.c, line 3323, GCLI_lh != 0 Stephen> [...] Stephen> followed by about 150 frames of mark_foo(), details on Stephen> request. Is this symtomatic of broken union-type? This is a Stephen> --use-union-type build. I see this particular assert a fair Stephen> amount myself, and occasionally in backtraces on xemacs-beta. I've fixed this one, along with a whole bunch of typos in the Gtk code. I expect to commit later today, after I've banged on the code for a while. Stephen> It would be nice to have real bug reports (ie, >= C backtrace) on this Stephen> stuff so that (a) we can guess whether we're seeing what you've seen Stephen> and (b) we can pass it on to the GCC core developers who occasionally Stephen> contribute to XEmacs. I also agree that union type is a Right Thing, and it's worth investing some effort to make it work. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla