[Bug optimization/11386] GNU Emacs 21.3 failed to install using GCC 3.3, but GCC 3.2.3 works.

["simon dot marshall at misys dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

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------- Additional Comments From simon dot marshall at misys dot com  2003-07-09 08:17 -------
> Just to clarify: temacs doesn't crash, right?
> Which means the bug is definitely related to the unexec/dump code?

Correct, temacs does not crash.

BTW, on emacs-devel@gnu.org, Dhruva Krishnamurthy [seagull@fastmail.fm] said:

> I had sent an email to the list:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> I had tried building GNU Emacs with GCC 3.3 and had encountered a
> problem which I have raised as a bug in GCC bugzilla(#9816).
> I tried again using a newer port of GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4 (not an official
> port though) from:
> http://www.thisiscool.com/gcc33_mingw.htm
> 
> I am unable to build or even progress to get an emacs.exe (executable).
> With the earlier port of GCC 3.3, I could build a bare emacs executable
> which failed in compiling elisp files.
> If someone has a link to a GCC 3.3 port on W2K (Win32/MinGW), please let
> me know. I will try to do some extensive testing. Unfortunately, I do not
> have the older GCC 3.3 port with me now!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>  As the problem is happening on Windows 2000 (W2K) platform, I feel it is
>  not releted to
> unexec and specific to ELF. On W2K, I am not sure it uses 'ld' for
> linking. So, modifications to 'ld' may not be the cause.