Re: Warning starting Emacs (Cygwin)

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>]

Dan Nicolaescu ha scritto:
> Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it> writes:
> 
>   > Dan Nicolaescu ha scritto:
>   > > Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it> writes:
>   > >
>   > >   > I wrote:
>   > >   >   > > starting Emacs it opens a buffer called Warnings in which
>   > > it prints:
>   > >   > >
>   > >   > > <beep>
>   > >   > > Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 95% of memory limit
>   > >   >   >   > I think there is some new problem.
>   > >   >   > Downloading cvs-trunk with -D "20080730 17:14" bootstraps
>   > > and works
>   > >   > without warning.
>   > >   >   > Instead -D "20080730 17:15" fails to bootstrap, but it is
>   > > solved with
>   > >   > the patch discussed here [1] or using systty.h from "20080730 17:14".
>   > >   >   > After solving the bootstrap problem the warning shows up.
>   > >   >   > Below [2] there are the differences between "20080730 17:14"
>   > > and
>   > >   > "20080730 17:15" and it seem hard to think that the patch is the cause
>   > >   > of the warning.
>   > >   >   > Perhaps the new handling (in 20080730 17:15) of getrlimit?
>   > >
>   > > Can you please try to verify that?  Doing a "cvs update" and
>   > > removing #undef HAVE_GETRLIMIT from
>   > > config.in should be enough.
>   > 
>   > Indeed! That workaround fixes the warning. Now Emacs starts normally.
> 
> Good, thanks for checking.
> 
>   > Perhaps, now, the fix should be applied to trunk...
> 
> Well, that would not be a good idea.  The HAVE_GETRLIMIT check was added
> for a reason, and it's very likely correct.  It seems that it has some
> side effect on Cygwin.  It would be great if you could debug that.

You should consider that, as I pointed out many times on this list, I am 
not very able to use GDB... and I do not know almost anything on Emacs 
code etc...

So if you have simple suggestions I will try.


Cheers,
    Angelo.