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From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Porting GNU to 386 running UNIX
Message-ID: <142@ateng.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 87 18:34:30 GMT
References: <303@mtuni.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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In article <303@mtuni.ATT.COM> aaa@mtuni.ATT.COM (Aaron Akman) writes:
}I am trying to port GNU to a 386 running UNIX.  [...]
}In certain situations, I get a "Fatal error(11)." and it dumps core.
}
}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.)

Perhaps you're calling concat() with a NULL pointer.  Although many
versions of UNIX have a zero at logical location zero, not all do.  It
could be that your '386 Unix doesn't have it, so a reference to NULL is
illegal.

Or you could be overflowing your stack.

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