[4705] in SIPB bug reports
Re: RS/6000 nvi core dump
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Tue Jul 5 22:00:08 1994
To: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
Cc: yandros@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 05 Jul 94 21:48:28 -0400.
<9407060148.AA28126@w20-575-97.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 94 21:59:50 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>
> Another fun AIX coredump sans data segment, I see. The stack traces
> reported by dbx and adb are different, a situation which usually causes
> me to rapidly lose interest in the problem.
AIX adb has a flaw common to many versions of adb: it ignores static
functions. The dbx stack trace is probably the more accurate one.
It seems to indicate a core dump in a curses function.
> Anyway, I can't repeat the problem, so I was wondering if you can. I
> tried running nvi on combine.c in the gccdev locker in an xterm brought
> up from an RS/6000, but I wasn't able to make it die by paging through
> the file. Is there anything else I should know? Did you have a .exrc
> file at the time? Was the xterm of unusual dimension?
The xterm was about 50x80. I don't have a .exrc. I set the termcapInhibit
X resource; I don't know if that has any effect on AIX.
