m4-1.4.11.42-864d

[Elbert Pol]

Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Elbert Pol on 8/13/2008 12:17 PM:
> > Hello Eric,
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> [please don't top-post]
>
> > > However, I'm still interested in seeing what this does when libsigsegv is
> > > not present (you can use './configure --without-libsigsegv-prefix' to
> > > rebuild m4 without it, rather than having to uninstall the library).
>
> > I build now with --without-libsigsegv-prefix
> >
> > I attach resulst
>
> Hmm.  According to that most recent log, using an explicit
>   ./configure --without-libsigsegv-prefix
> did not do what I expected; configure still detected the library located
> in --prefix, and still linked with it.  I'm not sure why libsigsegv.m4 is
> not honoring an explicit --without.  Bruno, might this be a bug in
> lib-prefix.m4?
>
> At any rate, I'm installing this patch to gnulib, since it appears (from
> your first log), that even though your platform supports SA_ONSTACK, it
> does not handle stack overflow as a SIGSEGV that can be handled by the
> alternate stack.  It basically splits stack overflow detection into two
> tests, so that c-stack doesn't even try installing a handler if it appears
> that stack overflow SIGSEGV can't really be handled.
>
> I'm planning on building a new m4 snapshot with all the recent gnulib
> fixes later today.

Hello,

Sorry for this long delay, had vacation for 16 days.
I tried to day latest build from you, and attach the results:

I saw a crash on:
08-31-2008  00:05:59  SYS3171  PID 13c4  TID 0001  Slot 00b5
U:\M4-1.4.11.42-864D\CONFTEST.EXE
c0000005
0001016f
P1=00000002  P2=0001ff6c  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX
EAX=00000000  EBX=00000001  ECX=0011fd68  EDX=00020180
ESI=00000000  EDI=00000000
DS=0053  DSACC=f0f3  DSLIM=ffffffff
ES=0053  ESACC=f0f3  ESLIM=ffffffff
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:0001016f  CSACC=f0df  CSLIM=ffffffff
SS:ESP=0053:0001ff68  SSACC=f0f3  SSLIM=ffffffff
EBP=00020174  FLG=00010212

CONFTEST.EXE 0001:0000016f

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