Problems with w3m

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> (PvO) wrote:

>PvO> I have run it with gdb and it reveals that it hangs in:
>PvO> Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
>PvO> 0xffff0292 in ___spin_lock () at /System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/PrivateHeaders/i386/cpu_capabilities.h:216
>PvO> 216     /System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/PrivateHeaders/i386/cpu_capabilities.h: No such file or directory.
>PvO>         in /System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/PrivateHeaders/i386/cpu_capabilities.h
>PvO> (gdb) bt
>PvO> #0  0xffff0292 in ___spin_lock () at /System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/PrivateHeaders/i386/cpu_capabilities.h:216

>PvO> This spin_lock is some synchronisation thing in Mac OS X I think. I have
>PvO> also seen problems with it in emacs when malloc calls were done in signal
>PvO> handlers. 

This error is most probably caused by a bug in Boemgc 7.0. Inkscape also
suffers from it and there are bug reports about both in the tracker. Going
back to boehmgc 6.8 seems to solve the problem.
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