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An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

On my OpenSolaris. What could be more exciting than this?

praveen@athena:~$ /opt/sfw/bin/emacs
Fatal error (11).Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

praveen@athena:~$ file core
core:           ELF 32-bit LSB core file 80386 Version 1, from 'emacs'
praveen@athena:~$ gdb -c core /opt/sfw/bin/emacs
GNU gdb 6 ...

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