Re: seg-fault in unexelf.c

[Chip Coldwell <coldwell@redhat.com>]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Nick Roberts wrote:
>
> I regularly build on FC5 without optimization and don't have any problems
> (although I haven't done "make bootstrap for a while, the final build uses
> "./temacs -l loadup -batch dump").

Which version?  If you mean 21.4 (the one that ships with FC5), then all 
this means is that, for whatever reason, your kernel is aways setting up 
the temacs process with a contiguous address space.  The fact that the 
Linux kernel could set up a process virtual address space with holes in it 
has to be dealt with anyway.

Although I must admit, a poll of all the vm-gurus in the building couldn't 
come up with a good reason *why* you would want a discontiguous process 
address space.

Chip

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