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From: aaa@mtuni.ATT.COM (Aaron Akman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Porting GNU to 386 running UNIX
Message-ID: <303@mtuni.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Dec 87 01:00:54 GMT
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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I am trying to port GNU to a 386 running UNIX.  So far, I have been
fairly successful.  I am able to bring up emacs, and do standard
editing kinds of things.  I have encountered one problem so far:

In certain situations, I get a "Fatal error(11)." and it dumps core.
Here's what I can say about the symptoms:

1. It always seems to happen when I am hitting <Return> in the
minibuffer.

2. An attempt at stack back-tracing showed:

	kill() has no subroutine linkage (pushl)
		Maybe kill(...) from fatal_error_signal(..) [emacs.c]
		Maybe kill() from update_line(..) [dispnew.c]
	fatal_error_signal(..) [emacs.c]
	concat(...) [fns.c]
	(...and much more.)

3. One certain case is:  (1) I load *info* (C-h i), (2) ask about a
variable (C-h v), (3) type in the variable name
("mode-line-inverse-video"), and (4) hit return.  Core dumped.

Any ideas?


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Aaron, mtuni!aaa, 201-957-2751