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From: hrp@cray.UUCP (Hal Peterson)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: One fix for two bugs in GNU Emacs 17.61
Message-ID: <321@cray.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-May-86 13:05:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: cray.321
Posted: Wed May 14 13:05:55 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 19-May-86 06:18:13 EDT
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Organization: Cray Research Inc., Mendota Heights, MN
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In article <319@cray.UUCP>, I wrote:

> We are running GNU Emacs version 17.61 on a VAX 785 running System V.2
> off the shelf.  When the dumped Emacs does garbage collection, it dies
> with a "Fatal error.Memory fault - core dumped" message.

Later, in article <320@cray.UUCP>, I wrote:

> Every time our dumped emacs starts up, it feeps and puts the message,
> "Wrong type argument: listp, 454660" in the minibuffer.

Last weekend, I finally took a deep breath and waded in with adb, and
found that these are two symptoms of one problem:  an incorrect declaration
in terminfo.c.  Here is the diff (terminfo.c is the fixed version and
terminfo.c.dist is the original):

===========================================================
*** terminfo.c	Sat May 10 21:48:35 1986
--- terminfo.c.dist	Sat May 10 21:43:31 1986
***************
*** 22,28
  
  #include "config.h"
  
! char* UP, BC, PC;
  short ospeed;
  
  #ifdef NO_ARG_ARRAY

--- 22,28 -----
  
  #include "config.h"
  
! char UP, BC, PC;
  short ospeed;
  
  #ifdef NO_ARG_ARRAY

===========================================================

Lint would have picked this up, but I suppose that all of the 24-bit
pointer stuff would drown real error messages in a sea of spurious
complaints.  Sigh.
-- 
Hal Peterson / Cray Research / 1440 Northland Dr. / Mendota Hts, MN  55120
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