On 10 May 2000, Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> wrote:
"Daniel Pittman" <daniel(a)danann.net> writes:
[...]
> #36 0x80bdf94 in error ( fmt=0x8208720 "Can't call a
conversion
> function from a conversion function") at eval.c:2266
... repeated a zillion times.
Trying to be clever in stderr_out (which can be used in the middle of
a crash, redisplay etc) is bad juju.
Let's undo that change, so we can at least seee the real problem
[...]
Hrm. Now it runs at 60% or better CPU usage after dumping, and keeps
landing in the same place. The two traces are several minutes of time
apart.
This is glibc 2.1.3, FWIW, out of the latest Debian unstable.
Daniel
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