From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: USE_LSB_TAG and MS-DOS Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 16:10:46 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2719-Sat15May2004150718+0300-eliz@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084634317 25410 80.91.224.253 (15 May 2004 15:18:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 15:18:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 15 17:18:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BP0vl-00084h-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 17:18:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BP0vl-0004Z1-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 17:18:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BP0oy-0004Gj-Gi for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 11:11:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BP0os-0004GA-J4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 11:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BP0oM-000471-Pd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 11:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BP0oM-00046y-Bb; Sat, 15 May 2004 11:10:50 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4FFAmU9021959; Sat, 15 May 2004 16:10:48 +0100 Original-Received: from NYAUMO (nyaumo.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4CE8DDD1F; Sat, 15 May 2004 16:10:48 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <2719-Sat15May2004150718+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 15 May 2004 15:07:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23481 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23481 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > For whom it may concern: I've checked in a change to lisp.h that > disables the use of USE_LSB_TAG in the MS-DOS port. USE_LSB_TAG was > turned on by a recent change in lisp.h because the MS-DOS build uses > the GNU malloc and GCC, but that caused temacs to crash with SIGABRT > during loadup when it performed the first GC. The Windows build was also crashing there, but I didn't think it used GNU malloc, so I wasn't expecting Stefan's code to be enabled. > Btw, the way DECL_ALIGN and USE_LSB_TAG are defined on lisp.h doesn't > leave any elegant way for specific platforms to turn that off without > cluttering lisp.h with ugly OS-specific #ifdef's. Perhaps we should > devise a cleaner way. Definitely, if we cannot fix the problems on those plaforms.