GNU bug report logs - #17598
Emacs pretest 24.3.91 - AIX - SIGSEV when customize

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gilles Pion <gpion <at> lfdj.com>

Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 06:54:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #47 received at 17598 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: gpion <at> lfdj.com, 17598 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dmantipov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#17598: Emacs pretest 24.3.91 - AIX - SIGSEV when customize
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 19:23:20 +0300

> Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 07:26:49 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Cc: 17598 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Unfortunately AIX uses the relocating allocator in ralloc.c, not the 
> system malloc

Does it?  The backtrace Gilles posted, viz.:

> (gdb) where
> #0  0xd013d94c in rightmost () from /usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)
> #1  0xd013eb28 in free_y () from /usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)
> #2  0xd0129a74 in free_common () from /usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)
> #3  0xd11ff294 in XFreeFontNames <at> AF6_3 () from /usr/lib/libX11.a(shr4.o)
> #4  0x1028a04c in xfont_list_pattern (display=0x20837f98, 
>     pattern=0x2ff1da48 "-misc-fixed-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1", 
>     registry=542476962, script=1210196514) at xfont.c:142

doesn't seem to have gmalloc and ralloc functions anywhere in sight,
it looks like a call to 'free' in the system libc to me.  Am I missing
something?
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