From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Maier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: References: <20090220050031.37DF264BB2F@ate.maierh> Reply-To: Harald Maier , 2403@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235679901 28626 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2009 20:25:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 2403@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 26 21:26:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lcmo8-0000f7-8s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:26:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43981 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lcmmn-0006dc-7V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:24:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lcmli-0005uL-Dq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:23:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lcmlg-0005t9-NM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:23:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49587 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lcmlg-0005ss-Dj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:23:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:45393) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lcmlf-0008MM-PN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:23:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n1QKNbXh008406; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:23:37 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n1QKA5C9005048; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:10:05 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Harald Maier Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:10:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 2403 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 2403-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B2403.12356786022867 (code B ref 2403); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:10:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 2403) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 26 Feb 2009 20:03:22 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n1QK3IBB002860 for <2403@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:03:20 -0800 Original-Received: from ate.maierh (p54987A9F.dip.t-dialin.net [84.152.122.159]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu7) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML2xA-1LcmRe18am-0006Am; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:02:58 +0100 Original-Received: by ate.maierh (Postfix, from userid 501) id F2A9A65AE91; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:02:57 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:35:52 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (darwin) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX194R3tgYDHUcLUwh2YGhbZhN9BhW+CdisWKKyu AxkJyNwvpLmSbbTfouMoze1oEeV9sQP6V6TH37f5CngM/WRRzD Lkq/X8h3phRiXPioK36aA== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:23:41 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:25751 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Harald Maier >> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:26:00 +0100 >> Cc: >> >> Harald Maier 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