GNU bug report logs - #18784
Coultdn't compile emacs-24.4

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gangræna Gorgeous <trupanka <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 13847, 18780

Found in versions 24.4, 25.0.50

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #49 received at 18784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: ulm <at> gentoo.org, 18784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18784: Coultdn't compile emacs-24.4
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:29:20 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: ulm <at> gentoo.org, 18784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:19:43 -0400
> 
> > Anyway, please don't make that effective for every supported system;
> > e.g., I think it's wrong to do that for Windows, which always produces
> > PIE code.
> 
> Hmm... so maybe the core of the problem is not PIE and -nopie just ends
> up preventing something else (e.g. some kind of address space
> randomization of the code).

I think we don't really understand why this bug happens.  At least I
have no clear idea of how PIE can cause temacs segfault.
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