Re: Unexec gurus?

[Russell McManus <russell dot mcmanus at msdw dot com>]

"Greg J. Badros" <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> HOWEVER, when single-stepping through tguile-dumped and scwm-dumped in
> GDB, there is an important behavioural difference that I cannot explain:
> In starting the dumped executables, Guile's init.c's scm_boot_guile_1,
> the "static int initialized" variable that is used there does not appear
> to have the value "1" for the dumped scwm, but does for the dumped
> tguile.  Both did set that variable correctly when dumping, but Scwm's
> dumped executable somehow has lost that state. I'm looking for
> suggestions for why that might be.

Are you statically linking in libguile.a?  I know it's a simple one,
but it got me in the past.  If your dynamically linking libguile.so,
that variable gets whacked.  My memory here is fuzzy, I hope this
helps.

-russ

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