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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: Problems installing emacs on Sun3
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Date: 3 Dec 90 15:43:09 GMT
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In-Reply-To: mcr@Latour.Sandelman.Ocug.On.Ca's message of 2 Dec 90 05:55:49 GMT

In article <1990Dec2.055549.3445@Latour.Sandelman.Ocug.On.Ca> mcr@Latour.Sandelman.Ocug.On.Ca (Michael Richardson) writes:
   IF there is a patch I would ask that it be posted, or some method
   of retrieving it be posted. I suspect that there is an appropriate
   place in the gnu.* hierarchy. I'm not sure, my site only start
   receiving it.

Then you missed it when it came around on gnu.emacs.help in the FAQ
document:

From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: GNU Emacs Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (part 1 of 2)
Date: 19 Oct 90 01:38:21 GMT
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department

44. Why does Emacs crash under SunOS 4.1?
  
  Under SunOS 4.1, Emacs dies with this message:
  
    Fatal error (6).Abort
  
  There is a bug in the "localtime" routine supplied with SunOS 4.1.
  A private function called by tzsetwall zeroes the byte just past an
  eight byte region it mallocs.  This corrupts GNU malloc's memory pool.
  
  Put "#define SYSTEM_MALLOC" in src/config.h.
  
  Or, for the purists:
  
  Put "#define SUNOS_LOCALTIME_BUG" in src/config.h and apply the following
  patch to src/malloc.c.
  
  (Patch by Eirik Fuller <eirik@elf.tn.cornell.edu>.)
  
  >*** malloc.c~   Fri Apr  7 22:12:10 1989
  >--- malloc.c    Tue May  8 07:07:22 1990
  >***************
  >*** 476,482 ****
  >--- 476,487 ----
  >       multiple of 8, then figure out which nestf[] area to use.
  >       Both the beginning of the header and the beginning of the
  >       block should be on an eight byte boundary.  */
  >+ #ifdef SUNOS_LOCALTIME_BUG
  >+   /* SunOS 4.1 localtime scribbles on the ninth byte.  */
  >+   nbytes = (n + ((sizeof *p + 15) & ~15) + EXTRA + 15) & ~15;
  >+ #else
  >    nbytes = (n + ((sizeof *p + 7) & ~7) + EXTRA + 7) & ~7;
  >+ #endif
  >    {
  >      register unsigned int   shiftr = (nbytes - 1) >> 2;
  >  


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