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Am Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:39:33 -0800 (PST)
schrieb "Khusraw (mv DOT ionascu AT gmail DOT com) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]"
<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>:

> Testing for longer I could note that there are crashes on both my
> available "systems" when I use make 4.3 with gcc 3.4.6 too, though
> not as frequent as with gcc 10.3.0. So I recommend the use of
> make 4.1, I haven't seen yet any crash with it, and I tested it for
> even longer.


I have observed the same.  As far as I can tell the issue is related to
the nmalloc used in djdev205.  When I compile ports for DJGPP, I always
use the current cvs repository code and replace the nmalloc stuff with
the old malloc stuff.  This issue has been brought to my attention in:
  https://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp/2020/05/01/00:19:09
and I have tried to debug this for a couple of months but I fear that I
am to dumb for this task.  It seems clear that after certain amount of
memory consumption due to recursive call of certain functions in the
make program certain nmalloc tables get corrupted.  I have given up to
trace down this issue long time ago so do not ask me any details.  I
have forgotten about them but if you experience crashes of the make
program, you can try to trace down it by yourself.  The only thing you
need to do it to compile libc.a with -g -O0 and then compile the make
program with -g -O0 too.
The -O0 has absolute no impact on the crash.  It will crash anyway
under the right circumstances.  If not you can reproduced the bug as
described in the thread above.
Of course, this is not related only to the make program; som other
programs will exhibit the same memory failure under the right
circunstances too.  I have stoped using nmalloc at all because I do not
have the time to fix it and I have started to use the old malloc code
again in all the ports I have uploaded since then. I am not claiming
that the nmalloc is bad, I am simply telling that there is some subtle
bug in it that may be triggered under the right conditions.

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero