Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!shelby!portia!portia.stanford.edu!castor From: castor@fizzle.stanford.edu (Castor Fu) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: unaligned accesses Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 89 20:54:57 GMT Sender: USENET News System Distribution: gnu Organization: Physics Dept., Stanford University Lines: 13 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