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From: wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Fatal error (6).Abort (core dumped) on Sun3 os4.1
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Date: 6 Jun 90 03:02:27 GMT
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In-Reply-To: mrh@sys.uea.ac.uk's message of 4 Jun 90 14:57:45 GMT

This is a known problem with GNU Emacs under SunOS 4.1. It was
reported in a recent issue of the Sun Software Technical Bulletin. The
problem is with the GNU malloc() routine. A quick workaround is to
define SYSTEM_MALLOC in your config.h file and recompile.

Bill Wisner <wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> Gryphon Gang Fairbanks AK 99775
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