Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Experience with Common TeX 3.0 on 386 UNIX Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 23:49:41 GMT References: <1990Nov26.223140.16256@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: teachb In-reply-to: glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU's message of 26 Nov 90 22:31:40 GMT On 26 Nov 90 22:31:40 GMT, glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) said: glenn> [ ... CTeX 3.0 goes fine on SPARC ... ] glenn> [ ... but fials on LaTeX on 386 ... ] Well, I have compiled the whole thing under ESIX, with 'cc', using unexec() from GNU Emacs instead of undump, and it works for me. I used the 3.0 LaTeX and TeX macros as found on labrea.stanford.edu. glenn> Well anyway initex lplain dies just before it looks at glenn> hyphen.tex. A poke around with the debugger shows that it dies in glenn> new_node() (alloc.c) which is called from new_sym() (sym.c) as glenn> (when it crashes) new_sym("stackrel", 9) which seems ok. Has glenn> anyone got any further? I had no problem whatsoever. Try using unexec() and not undump -- it is more portable anyhow. I am even tuning it -- first memory allocation, then the rest. I have sent back some patches to Pat Monardo, along with the source of my superefficient malloc() clone. They should appear eventually. -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk