Re: bug?

[Gary V . Vaughan]

In an ancient message, Jack Gundrum wrote:
> Hi,
> I get the following from both m4 1.4 and m4 1.4o on my Ultra60 running
> Solaris 2.7. I need m4 to make autoconf only. Any ideas/help appreciated.
>
>
> spork% m4 --version
> GNU m4 1.4o
> Memory bounds violation detected (SIGSEGV).  Either a stack overflow
> occurred, or there is a bug in m4.  Check for possible infinite recursion.
> Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
> spork%

Recompile with debugging, and have a look at the core dump with gdb.  If you
don't know how to do that try the following, and send a copy of the output 
back here:

  $ make clean
  $ make CFLAGS=-g
  $ ./src/m4 --version
  [assuming you still get the core dump:]
  $ gdb ./src/m4 core
  gdb> backtrace

For what its worth, I have m4-1.4 working on Solaris 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6 and 2.8, 
and I have m4-1.4p working on Solaris 2.8... all without any problems or 
peculiarities.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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