Re: Emacs 21.4a dumps core while exiting

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:10:32 -0400
> From: Larry Griffith <larry@cs.wsc.ma.edu>
> Cc: larry@cs.wsc.ma.edu
> 
>       When we recently upgraded from emacs 21.3 to emacs 21.4a on
> our Solaris 9 machines, we found that emacs would cause a coredump
> when it exited.  Buffers were written correctly to files.  We tried
> reverting to emacs 21.3, but now it does the same thing.  Even
> clearing out all files installed by emacs and reinstalling does not
> prevent this behavior.  The only change we can think of that might
> cause this was an upgrade of gcc to version 4.0.1 prior to the emacs
> upgrade.

Does it help to compile without optimizations (-O0)?

>       I have attached a transcript of our installation of 21.4

You forgot the attachment.

Please make sure that the transcript include the debug session where
you run GDB or DBX on the core file and show the backtrace, so we know
where to look for the problem.

TIA