From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 4 01:21:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA05917 for current-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 01:21:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA05903 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 01:21:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.cybercity.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA07663; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 10:19:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: John Polstra cc: Richard J Kuhns , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: recent ld.so changes broke emacs In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Dec 1997 14:24:11 PST." <199712032224.OAA06693@austin.polstra.com> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 10:19:30 +0100 Message-ID: <7661.881227170@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199712032224.OAA06693@austin.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes: >> I just rebuilt the world last night (-current), and this morning >> started building and installing Xemacs-20.3, which was just released >> a couple of days ago. It apparently works fine, except for the >> following message whenever it starts: >> >> Absurd new brk addr = 0x352000 (current = 0x358000) >> >> I was going to send some mail to the xemacs maintainers, but now I >> think I'll wait a little longer. > >Good call. This also is most likely related to the changes I made. >Sigh. Emacs and friends are doing some grossly presumptuous things. Emacs may think that it has a monopoly on calling sbrk() that would be bad :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."