From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Doug Lewan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Core dump on AIX? Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:04:10 +0000 Message-ID: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9828F0CB86@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366733221 2387 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2013 16:07:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:07:01 +0000 (UTC) To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 23 18:07:05 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UUfkG-00050f-Ct for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:07:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55274 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUffb-0008PW-UZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:02:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUffG-0008JU-4d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUff9-0007vo-S7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:01:53 -0400 Original-Received: from webmail.shubertorg.com ([207.246.209.200]:44933) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUff9-0007uy-Lp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:01:47 -0400 Original-Received: from dakiya1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) by DAKIYA1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) with mapi id 14.01.0339.001; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:04:11 -0400 Thread-Topic: Core dump on AIX? Thread-Index: Ac5AO9oOQl0lUuRpT8+3t7rHGBy5YQ== Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.0.21.202] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 7 or 8 X-Received-From: 207.246.209.200 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90307 Archived-At: All, I'm using emacs 24.1 on AIX 6.1, built here with xlc. It was configured wit= h this line: ./configure --prefix=3D${HOME}/local --with-jpeg=3Dno --with-png=3Dno -= -with-gif=3Dno --with-tiff=3Dno I get fairly frequent core dumps in emacs. They seem associated with motion= but I can't say that that's absolute. There are some observations below. Does anyone have anything to help be wit= h this. One failure that I /can/ reproduce reliably that suggests the above is this= : 1. emacs -q file_of_interest.c & file_of_interest.c is about 1= .1MB and 34 000 lines. 2. M- 1 0 0 0 0 C-n 3. Fatal error (11)Resources lost(coredump) BTW I can't build 24.3 as my environment stands. Making eventually produces= this error: Emacs garbage collector has been changed to use conservative stack marking. Emacs has determined that the default method it uses to do th= e marking will not work on your system. We will need a system-dependent solution for your system. (Admittedly, I'm being a bit lazy turning to the mailing list, since it doe= s give a little hint about what to do: Please take a look at the function mark_stack in alloc.c, and try to find a way to make it work on your system. (And then it reveals that it's seeking help too: Please mail the result to . ) ) ,Douglas Douglas Lewan Shubert Ticketing (201) 489-8600 ext 224 If the majority of cooking accidents happen in the kitchen, then why don't = we just cook in other rooms?