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Segmentation fault when building on Power8 Little Endian

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Message #126 received at 20614 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Petr Hracek <phracek <at> redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20614 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20614: Segmentation fault when building on Power8 Little
 Endian
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:58:56 +0200

On 10/02/2015 10:49 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: 20614 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Petr Hracek <phracek <at> redhat.com>
>> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 10:36:27 +0200
>>
>> What does this GDB command display in frame #1:
>>
>>    (gdb) p old_section_names + NEW_SECTION_H (nn).sh_name
>>
>> ?
>>
>> It is a really strange.
>> in our unexelf.c is NEW_SECTION_H defined as
>>
>> #define NEW_SECTION_H(n) \
>> (*(ElfW (Shdr) *) ((byte *) new_section_h + new_file_h->e_shentsize * (n)))
>>
>> Paul Eggert did a some patch 1 or 2 year ago and modify it to
>> #define NEW_SECTION_H(n) \
>>    (*(ElfW (Shdr) *) entry_address (new_section_h, n, new_file_h->e_shentsize))
>>
>> (gdb) frame 1
>> #1 0x00000000102e3724 in unexec (new_name=0x116387e8
>> "/home/phracek/rpmbuild/BUILD/emacs-24.3/src/emacs", old_name=0x11638838
>> "/home/phracek/rpmbuild/BUILD/emacs-24.3/src/temacs")
>> at unexelf.c:1258
>> 1258 if (!strcmp (old_section_names + NEW_SECTION_H (nn).sh_name, ".data")
>> (gdb) p old_section_names
>> $1 = 0x3fffab1dbfcc ""
>> (gdb) p old_section_names + NEW_SECTION_H (nn).sh_name
>> No symbol "NEW_SECTION_H" in current context.
> Use the expansion of that macro instead to display the value.
How to use the expansion.
Are you connected on freenode #emacs.

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Petr Hracek
Software Engineer
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Red Hat, Inc
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email: phracek <at> redhat.com

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