emacs23 looping during bootstrap?

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hi,

while doing a bulk build on NetBSD/amd64 8.0_BETA, I notice that
temacs appears to be looping while doing

  temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap

The process would have hit the CPU time limit I've imposed if I
hadn't kill it early, and therefore this stalls the bulk build.

Applying gdb to it reveals that it's looping inside its own
calloc():

: {20} gdb -q gmalloc.o
Reading symbols from gmalloc.o...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.
(gdb) disass calloc
Dump of assembler code for function calloc:
   0x000012f9 <+0>:     imul   %rsi,%rdi
   0x000012fd <+4>:     mov    $0x1,%esi
   0x00001302 <+9>:     jmp    0x12f9 <calloc>
End of assembler dump.
(gdb)

The C source looks normal:

__ptr_t
calloc (nmemb, size)
     register __malloc_size_t nmemb;
     register __malloc_size_t size;
{
  register __ptr_t result = malloc (nmemb * size);

  if (result != NULL)
    (void) memset (result, 0, nmemb * size);

  return result;
}

?!?!?

Does anyone else see the same problem?

Any idea what is going on here?

Regards,

- Håvard