Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!dbm
From: dbm@alice.UUCP (David MacQueen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: emacs, the final chapter -- I hope
Message-ID: <11258@alice.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 90 04:14:13 GMT
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Reply-To: dbm@alice.UUCP (mh8896)
Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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Are the irix3.3 patches for gnu emacs available by ftp anywhere?

We have another application, a Standard ML compiler, that builds
an executable image using a technique similar to that used in gnu
emacs; the sdata, sbss, etc segments are redefined as 0 length segments
at the end of the data segment.  This works for DECstation/Ultrix,
MIPS/riscos, and Irix 3.2, but fails on Irix 3.3, where the data
segment appears to be neither readable nor writeable.  I'd appreciate
any hints about what might be going on.

Dave MacQueen
macqueen@research.att.com