Re: 1008 segfaults in genattr

[Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>]

>>>>> Robert Lipe <robertl@dgii.com> writes:

>> I refuse to accept disabling HAVE_ATEXIT until someone can explain why it's
>> a problem.  So far the explanations haven't cut it.

> OK.   Between the explanations in this thread and the ones under the 
> titles of related unixware and openserver problems, I don't know any
> better how to better explain it.   Yes, perhaps I'm still missing the
> Real Problem, but losing HAVE_ATEXIT seems to make life better for some
> cases.   It seems to make life better for a Lot cases under Unixware. 

Unfortunately, that's a workaround, not an explanation.  I'm not
comfortable just putting in a change that fixes a problem without anyone
knowing why it works.

> If we're masking some other problem, and you refuse to accept this, 
> we're going to have to roll up our sleeves and understand it.

Yep, that's what I had in mind.

> What do you need?   A disassembly of binary compiled with a 
> "HAVE_ATEXIT" compiler that fails p2732b.C?

That would be a good start, thanks.

> I've included stack backtraces, disassemblies, and objdump output
> in previous threads.

I guess I'll go back and look for them.

Jason