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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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