From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz: Problem on 64bit systems.]
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:54:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d58ass7j.fsf@furball.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1GeFfZ-0007gP-6a@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 29 Oct 2006 13\:46\:05 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Would someone please install this, then ack?
I installed it. (I assumed you already checked it for correctness.)
Thanks.
> From: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
> Subject: Problem on 64bit systems.
> To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> I thing I reported this back when I found it but in case I didn't:
>
> emacs would quickly complain about running out of memory and core dump on
> amd64 systems on NetBSD. Problem was tracked down to a bug in ralloc.c that
> caused a negative number intended to be an argument to sbrk() to reduce the
> break to be treated as a large positive one (because of wrong sized object
> being passed on the stack).
>
> Below patch fixes:
>
> - --- src/ralloc.c.orig 2001-02-20 01:19:40.000000000 +1300
> +++ src/ralloc.c
> @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ static void
> relinquish ()
> {
> register heap_ptr h;
> - - int excess = 0;
> + long excess = 0;
>
> /* Add the amount of space beyond break_value
> in all heaps which have extend beyond break_value at all. */
>
> cheers
> mark
>
>
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2006-10-29 18:46 [mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz: Problem on 64bit systems.] Richard Stallman
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