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Subject: Re: Repeatable crash with union type
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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 03 Jul 1997 09:58:51 +0200
In-Reply-To: Martin Buchholz's message of "Wed, 2 Jul 1997 18:28:42 -0700"
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Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

> I've added this to internals.texi:
> 
> Use @samp{--with-union-type=yes} occasionally to build XEmacs, for
> improved compile-time type checking.  This is not the default, because
> it is a little slower, and (more importantly) gcc generates buggy code
> that causes XEmacs to crash when the combination @samp{--with-gcc}
> @samp{--with-union-type} @samp{--with-mule} is used.  This is not a
> problem with other compilers, such as SunPro cc.
> 
> Ben sez:
[...]

Ben is wrong.  The same crash happens with SunPro cc.  This is an
XEmacs bug -- nothing more and nothing less.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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