GNU bug report logs - #24204
temacs crashes on invocation with new GLIBC 2.24

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jpbion <at> jfwest.com

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:52:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Merged with 23760, 24033

Found in version 25.0.95

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jpbion <at> jfwest.com
Cc: 24204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24204: temacs crashes on invocation with new GLIBC 2.24
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:46:38 +0300
> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 08:30:57 -0700
> From: jpbion <at> jfwest.com
> 
> Using the new glibc, v2.24, and GCC 6.1
> 
> Any attempt to run 'temacs' fails with a segment fault. It appears that 
> the call to 'malloc' inside the 'calloc' function in Emacs' gmalloc.c 
> file starts to recurse, and eventually hits a segment fault after 
> recursing 10,000+ times. Here is the stack trace at the beginning of 
> this nested recursion hell.
> 
> I don't know why the call to malloc is turning into a call for the 
> calloc in gmalloc.c, but I think whatever is doing that is causing this 
> problem.
> 
> Any thoughts? Anything else needed?

You don't say what version of Emacs you tried to build.  I think this
is already fixed in the development sources.




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