Re: Bug#131033: gdb 5.1 dumped core on me [was: Emacs abort under gdb]

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:19:28PM +0100, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
>    As for the bug, I have verified that it is in fact fixed upstream. 
>    >From your core dump:
>    
>    esp            0xb7e7b414       0xb7e7b414
>    ebp            0xbfffe75c       0xbfffe75c
>    
>    I.E. the stack frame for child_xfer_memory is several MB large.  You
>    may have been debugging a very large variable or something along those
>    lines.  There was an alloca() in child_xfer_memory that could cause
>    this exact problem, and it has been removed.
> 
> Wonderful, thanks.  This is what I had been told was probably the case,
> but I had no way to verify.  Now it's sure.  May I delete the core and
> all?

Go right ahead.

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