From: Harald Maier <harald@maierh.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 2403@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2403: 23.0.90; emacs bootstrap under AIX hangs at lisp/international/characters.el
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:02:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ocwpm0em.fsf_-_@ate.maierh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u63ixq9d3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:35:52 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Harald Maier <harald@maierh.de>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:26:00 +0100
>> Cc:
>>
>> Harald Maier <harald@maierh.de> writes:
>>
>> > I am trying to build emacs-23.0.90 under AIX but it hangs at loading the
>> > characters.el file:
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > ...
>> > Loading /usr/maierha/build/cvs/emacs/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el (source)...
>> > Loading /usr/maierha/build/cvs/emacs/lisp/case-table.el (source)...
>> > Loading /usr/maierha/build/cvs/emacs/lisp/international/characters.el (source)...
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > This happens on AIX 5.2 and AIX 5.3 and I am using the latest CVS
>> > version. It looks that temacs is in an enless loop. Any idea what the
>> > problem might be?
>>
>> I digged a little bit deeper to this problem. temacs is in a endless
>> loop in the following for loop in the alloca.c file:
>>
>> --- alloca.c:5101 ---
>> #if (GC_MARK_STACK == GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS \
>> || GC_MARK_STACK == GC_MARK_STACK_CHECK_GCPROS)
>> mark_stack ();
>> #else
>> {
>> register struct gcpro *tail;
>> => for (tail = gcprolist; tail; tail = tail->next)
>> for (i = 0; i < tail->nvars; i++)
>> mark_object (tail->var[i]);
>> }
>> #endif
>> ---------------------
>> If I examine the values in gdb then I see that the second element of
>> gcprolist points to itself in the next element. That's why emacs loops.
>
> Could it be that Emacs doesn't have enough stack space? (I have no
> idea whether stack on AIX is statically allocated and what is its
> default size.)
Definitely not. Both machines has lots of resources and also Emacs 22
compiles and works very well. But I can verify that if you can give me
some hints how to do this.
Harald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-26 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-20 5:00 bug#2403: 23.0.90; emacs bootstrap under AIX hangs at lisp/international/characters.el Harald Maier
2009-02-26 18:26 ` Harald Maier
2009-02-26 18:28 ` Harald Maier
2009-02-26 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-26 20:02 ` Harald Maier [this message]
2009-02-27 10:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-06 21:19 ` Criveti Mihai
2009-03-06 23:04 ` Criveti Mihai
2009-03-07 1:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-03-07 4:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-03-08 14:20 ` Harald Maier
2009-03-08 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-09 18:02 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-03-10 6:18 ` Criveti Mihai
2009-03-10 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-11 5:32 ` Harald Maier
2009-02-26 20:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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