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From: slh@wolf.cs.washington.edu (Scott Heyano)
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Subject: Re: NEW GNU Emacs available - with DUMPING!!!
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Date: 23 Jan 91 02:39:05 GMT
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In article <182.279c284e@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu> lusgr@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu (Steve Roseman) writes:
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|Emacs version 18.56, now available from prep.ai.mit.edu has full RS/6000 
|support, including DUMPING!!!!!!  Simply get /u/emacs/emacs-18.56.tar.Z, do
|the normal installation stuff (like making paths.h and config.h) and it works.
|(use m-ibmrs6000.h and s-aix3-1.h in config.h, configure X-Windows if desired).
|
	Are you sure dumping is working?
	The MACHINE file clearly states that you can produce a dump,
	but after some period of time the dumped executable will fail.
	Quote:
  Dumping does not work.  Code has been written to implement it, but
  it fails because the address of bss seems to vary occasionally
  between Emacs runs.  It does not seem to vary from minute to minute,
  but every few days or weeks it changes to a new steady state.
  When this happens, the dumped Emacs data file becomes invalid.