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From: karl@mumble.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU under 5.3
Message-ID: <3345@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 87 15:01:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: tim@banyan.UUCP's message of 16 Dec 87 13:29:48 GMT


tim@banyan.UUCP writes:
   I am trying to port GNU Emacs 18.49 to a Compaq 386 running Unix 5.3.
   I got everything building fine until the point where 'temacs'
   started loading up the standard lisp code and dumping itself to
   'xemacs'. Everything worked O.K. except for the fact that the 
   resulting 'xemacs' image was 4.5 MEGABYTES LONG!

You're probably up against COFF requirements for your system, for the
space between text and data segments.  Among other things, check what
you're doing with NO_REMAP, which prevents text/data boundary
remapping for systems where the segmentation habits are not good.
(3Bs have this problem.)  Look up the COFF constants used in <a.out.h>
and all the other header files it includes for info on what's going
on.
-=-
Karl