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Re: Bug#131033: gdb 5.1 dumped core on me [was: Emacs abort under gdb]
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Daniel Jacobowitz |
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Re: Bug#131033: gdb 5.1 dumped core on me [was: Emacs abort under gdb] |
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Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:04:54 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.3.23i |
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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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer