Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:10:54 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs core dumping on -current? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971203130805.22960F-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199712032012.MAA05798@austin.polstra.com>
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just out of curiosity, is the core file size a nice round number like say 16777216? I've been surprised at times by login.conf limits... -c On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, John Polstra wrote: > > looking through your notes, could this be a problem with > > gnu-malloc() which emacs defaults to? > > Toward the end of the build process, emacs does this hack where it > loads all the standard elisp files and compiles them internally. Then > it "dumps" itself to produce the executable that gets installed. > I.e., it writes its own address space out to a file and hacks it into > an a.out executable. > > The problem has something to do with that. I can't look into it any > deeper until this evening at the soonest. > > John > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth >
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