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

[Kent Robotti]

Quoting Foteos Macrides (address@hidden):
> 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...
> 
>                               Fote
> 

I have the same problem with lynx2-6FM-1-10-97 on linux.
I also have that gunzip file.gz problem, when a file has
a .gz extension it's labeled gunzip instead of GNU
Compressed.
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