Bug#340851: 5.7.3 failure

2005-12-06 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Matt, According to my reading of the doc for mmap, this should work. It does work on other platforms. It also seg faults instead of returning ((void*)-1). Now, what? :-( If you don't want to require that users use a kernel that doesn't misbehave like this, shouldn't you add an autoconf

Bug#340851: 5.7.3 failure

2005-12-06 Thread Matt Kraai
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:34:43PM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: > On Thursday 01 December 2005 08:11 am, Bruce Korb wrote: > > The call to scm_makstr() is faulting (every time for me): > > Hi all, > > I have now been able to recreate the failure on this call fairly > often, but I have not found a cau

Bug#340851: 5.7.3 failure

2005-12-05 Thread Bruce Korb
On Thursday 01 December 2005 08:11 am, Bruce Korb wrote: > The call to scm_makstr() is faulting (every time for me): Hi all, I have now been able to recreate the failure on this call fairly often, but I have not found a cause. Nevertheless, this call is only useful if you use SCM_CHARS() and tha

Bug#340851: 5.7.3 failure

2005-12-01 Thread Bruce Korb
The call to scm_makstr() is faulting (every time for me): $ uname -a Linux juist 2.6.13.2 #2 Fri Sep 23 18:45:17 CEST 2005 alpha GNU/Linux $ gdb ../../autogen (gdb) set args --trace=everything -b license --no-def -T license.tpl (gdb) run Starting program: /home/bkorb/autogen-5.7.3/agen5/autogen --