From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: allocate_string_data memory corruption Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:28:08 -0500 Message-ID: <267BAC30-FAEC-4514-94E4-F1A6533065D7@gnu.org> References: <87vewha2zl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137762478 25465 80.91.229.2 (20 Jan 2006 13:07:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:07:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 20 14:07:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ezvz3-0005pb-Dh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:07:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EztP2-00075G-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 05:21:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EzscQ-0001lg-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:31:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ezsbu-0001Xq-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:31:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ezsbt-0001Wr-FQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:31:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [204.127.202.59] (helo=sccrmhc14.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ezsfi-0006rb-Rh; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from raeburn.org (c-65-96-168-237.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[65.96.168.237]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2006012009281101400evefge>; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:28:12 +0000 Original-Received: from [18.101.0.226] (laptop.raeburn.org [18.101.0.226]) by raeburn.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0K9SAkg011563; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:28:11 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49313 Archived-At: On Jan 19, 2006, at 20:14, Richard M. Stallman wrote: > Is this consistent across OSes? E.g., Linux and *BSD or Solaris? > > Linux is a kernel--not comparable to Solaris and *BSD. If you mean > the entire system that is basically GNU with Linux added, please call > it GNU/Linux. > > To call the GNU system "Linux" is unfair to the GNU Project (which > includes you, since you're helping develop a part of it). See > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html. Since hyperthreading seems to be a factor, actually, I was thinking of the kernel. Perhaps I should've said "*BSD kernels" and "Solaris kernels"... (But async signals and hardware problems, as previously suggested, do sound like better candidates to investigate first, if the problem isn't easily reproduced by anyone else.) Ken