changeset 60334:ec7a860cdd57

Add information about `-fno-crossjumping' for GCC.
author David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
date Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:01:05 +0000
parents e1f267f69b78
children 816703abc637
files etc/ChangeLog etc/DEBUG
diffstat 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/ChangeLog	Tue Mar 01 13:38:34 2005 +0000
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog	Tue Mar 01 16:01:05 2005 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-03-01  David Kastrup  <dak@gnu.org>
+
+	* DEBUG: Add information about `-fno-crossjumping' for GCC.
+
 2005-02-14  Lute Kamstra  <lute@gnu.org>
 
 	* TODO: Remove battery.el entry (DONE).
--- a/etc/DEBUG	Tue Mar 01 13:38:34 2005 +0000
+++ b/etc/DEBUG	Tue Mar 01 16:01:05 2005 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Debugging GNU Emacs
-Copyright (c) 1985, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (c) 1985, 2000, 2001, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
    of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@
 where the executable was made.  That directory has a .gdbinit file
 that defines various "user-defined" commands for debugging Emacs.
 
+** When you are trying to analyze failed assertions, it will be
+essential to compile Emacs either completely without optimizations or
+at least (when using GCC) with the -fno-crossjumping option.  Failure
+to do so may make the compiler recycle the same abort call for all
+assertions in a given function, rendering the stack backtrace useless
+for identifying the specific failed assertion.
+
 ** It is a good idea to run Emacs under GDB (or some other suitable
 debugger) *all the time*.  Then, when Emacs crashes, you will be able
 to debug the live process, not just a core dump.  (This is especially