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From: karl@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Gnu Emacs on an IBM RT running AIX
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Date: 11 Jun 88 04:41:55 GMT
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In-reply-to: matt@violet.berkeley.edu's message of 10 Jun 88 19:22:30 GMT

If you're getting signal 9 (SIGKILL) during startup of Emacs, it
probably means that the binary was created invalidly, which probably
suggests that the unexec() logic is screwed for RT AIX.  Sdb will tell
you nothing, because the process is being killed with extreme
prejudice by the kernel in the exec() logic when it detected (e.g.)
bad alignment of the regions needed for your file.  That is, the
process isn't even getting started; main() (er, _start) was never
called.

Try forcing fewer heroics in unexec() by stipulating NO_REMAP and
rebuilding from scratch.

--Karl