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From: trq@MOOSE.CITA.UTORONTO.CA (Tom Quinn)
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Subject: problem with gnu malloc and gcc 1.33 on sparc
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Date: 10 Feb 89 14:48:53 GMT
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The malloc.c included with the emacs 18.52 distribution does not, in
general, return an 8 byte aligned pointer.  This causes problems when
gcc uses a "std" instruction, which requires an 8 byte aligned byte: a
"Bus error" results.  This was demonstrated by compiling emacs version
18.52 with the X11 and XMenu options with gcc 1.33 on a Sun 4/110
running SunOS 4.0. (The X and XMenu libraries were also compiled with
gcc 1.33)  The editor would die in XMenuCreate().  The malloc that Sun
provides appears to work.

Tom Quinn                 Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
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