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From: foo@portia.Stanford.EDU (castor fu)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: alignment problems in 18.55
Keywords: PMAX 18.55 ULTRIX .31
Message-ID: <5815@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Oct 89 21:05:41 GMT
Sender: castor fu <foo@Portia.stanford.edu>
Organization: Stanford University
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We are using GNU emacs 18.55 on a DECstation 3100, Ultrix 3.1 rev. 14.
and have had the
problem of EMACS occasionally fail to start up.  The error messages
are generally  "Segmentation fault"  or "emacs: bad address".
I would think that this means that somewhere in the startup code EMACS
is a little cavalier about un-aligned memory accesses.  This behavior
can be repeated if the system is relatively quiet,  and can usually
be thwarted by starting up some other programs to get things
to  a different alignment (i assume).  This problem seems to
invariably go away when running DBX unfortunately.  Anyone have any
ideas about how this should be fixed?
		-Castor Fu
		castor@fizzle.stanford.edu