GNU bug report logs - #5847
ETAGS: Segmentation fault, because of incorrect scope presumption

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Hubert Gosselmeyer <gosselmeyer <at> googlemail.com>

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 5847 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
To: 5847 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5847: ETAGS: Segmentation fault,
 because of incorrect scope presumption 
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:17:54 +0000

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> From: Ivan Shmakov  Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 17:57:34 +0000

 >>> A workaround is to build Etags with a larger stack.

 >> If it’s the OS stack we’re talking about, the limit on its size may
 >> very well be a run-time parameter on Unix-like systems; check the
 >> ‘ulimit’ shell command, for instance.

[…]

 > Yes, but that, too, ends at some point.

	I’ve responded mainly to the “build with a larger stack” part.

	If the issue at hand is frequent enough (which I gather is not
	the case), it may make sense to document the workaround in
	etc/PROBLEMS until the problem gets fixed properly.  (There’s a
	passing mention of using ‘ulimit’ to increase stack size for
	Emacs proper already, BTW.)

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