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Subject: Re: Symify crash
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> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:07:48 +0200
> From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
> 
> I've seen them too. I think they're caused by limitations
> of current default debugging format. If linker produces
> warning about line number overflow (I might be wrong; I barely
> recall that right now) for big program, and if it crashes, then
> symify crashes too.

The only program where I've seen the linker to complain about line
number overflow is GDB.  OTOH, crashes of SYMIFY I usually see for
Emacs, where the number of lines does not overflow at all.

It *is* true, however, that only large programs seem to trigger this.
I suspect some uninitialized variable in the code which reads symbols,
before they are sorted.

Someone should catch the offending code red-handed.