Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 2-6FM (01-10-97) SIGSEGV crash

[Foteos Macrides]

Laura Eaves <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Funny thing, when I do a 'lynx lynx_bookmarks.html' or 
>> 'lynx ~/lynx_bookmarks.html', or even 
>> 'lynx file://localhost/home/xmedh02/lynx_bookmarks.html' the latest lynx
>> 2-6FM crashes with a coredump. It doesn't crash when I open some other
>> document and then do a G to lynx_bookmarks.html. It doesn't crash either
>> ...
>
>I don't have any ideas but a small nit.
>I use 'lynx -book'.  It's shorter than typing .lynx_bookmarks.html
>and picks up the right file in case it's redefined.

        I can't reproduce that problem with my VMS, solaris2, or osf
images, but as I posted a while back there's something wrong as of v2.6
with the title handling, and I from time to time get crashes in
display_title() of GridText.c.  They don't occur in debug images, nor
with trace on, so it must be a memory management problem that's brought
on with optimization (we added -O for all targets as of v2.6), and is
masked by preceding output associated with trace mode.  I still don't
have a clue what's behind it, and it's kinda hard to track down if it's
not evident in debug images or with trace on.  Sigh...

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