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authorChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2010-04-27 11:36:16 -0400
committerChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2010-04-27 11:36:16 -0400
commit7218bfa838a580eaab94ab83ccbe74ef589a04d0 (patch)
treeee36f19001eb457e8085aa53d1d1d97dc181819c
parentb618b99083e4865a4111f71287fed49795bbe840 (diff)
downloademacs-7218bfa838a580eaab94ab83ccbe74ef589a04d0.tar.gz
* PROBLEMS: Document gcc-4.5 bug (Bug#6031).
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+2010-04-27 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
+
+ * PROBLEMS: Document gcc-4.5 bug (Bug#6031).
+
2010-04-23 Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
* HELLO: Adjust Burmese for Unicode 5.2 encoding.
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* Crash bugs
+** Emacs crashes when running in a terminal, if compiled with gcc-4.5.
+This version of GCC is buggy: see
+
+ http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6031
+ http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43904
+
+You can work around this error in gcc-4.5 by omitting sibling call
+optimization. To do this, configure Emacs with
+
+ CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls" ./configure
+
** Emacs crashes in x-popup-dialog.
This can happen if the dialog widget cannot find the font it wants to