Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: core dumps with gnu-emacs
Message-ID: <8618@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 5 Oct 88 20:35:11 GMT
References: <8809301722.AA19696@central.cis.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <8809301722.AA19696@central.cis.upenn.edu> Hds@CIS.UPENN.EDU (Human Designed Systems) writes:
>We are trying to bring up GNU EMACS 18.51 on a 386 PC clone running
>V.3 (from Interactive Systems) and everything looks good except we get
>occasional core dumps [in concat]

If this is the problem I think it is, the situation is that the optimizer and
the assembler version of alloca() are making conflicting assumptions.  So you
have two workarounds: either turn off the optimizer (at least when compiling
functions that call alloca()) or use the C implementation of alloca().

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint