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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2011-08-29 19:05:43 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2011-08-29 19:05:43 -0700 |
| commit | f9453fcbebf317b65b7ca963b09bd96b46f7d806 (patch) | |
| tree | a047c6b929dd408ce6e89035d7e647e01618f09c /etc | |
| parent | 3fd50d5c65684312f9603c4f28e1e1c3010887cd (diff) | |
* PROBLEMS: Remove obsolete comment re Yellow Dog (Bug#9403).
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| -rw-r--r-- | etc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 37 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index 092aa6fb38..05bf98dd40 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2011-08-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * PROBLEMS: Remove obsolete comment re Yellow Dog (Bug#9403). + 2011-08-24 Steve Chapel <schapel@laptop.stevechapel.com> (tiny change) * refcards/refcard.tex: Add a few more commands. (Bug#9343) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 2f344955cb..1869124987 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2648,43 +2648,6 @@ of PURESIZE in puresize.h. But in some of the cases listed above, this problem is a consequence of something else that is wrong. Be sure to check and fix the real problem. -*** Linux: Emacs crashes when dumping itself on Mac PPC running Yellow Dog GNU/Linux. - -The crashes happen inside the function Fmake_symbol; here's a typical -C backtrace printed by GDB: - - 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol () - (gdb) where - #0 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol () - #1 0x1942ca4 in init_obarray () - #2 0x18b3500 in main () - #3 0x114371c in __libc_start_main (argc=5, argv=0x7ffff5b4, envp=0x7ffff5cc, - -This could happen because GCC version 2.95 and later changed the base -of the load address to 0x10000000. Emacs needs to be told about this, -but we currently cannot do that automatically, because that breaks -other versions of GNU/Linux on the MacPPC. Until we find a way to -distinguish between the Yellow Dog and the other varieties of -GNU/Linux systems on the PPC, you will have to manually uncomment the -following section near the end of the file src/m/macppc.h in the Emacs -distribution: - - #if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux except for Yellowdog, - even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we - know what's really going on here. */ - /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to - 0x10000000. */ - #if defined __linux__ - #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95) - #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000 - #endif - #endif - #endif /* 0 */ - -Remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives which surround this, save -the file, and then reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. The dumping process -should now succeed. - *** OpenBSD 4.0 macppc: Segfault during dumping. The build aborts with signal 11 when the command `./temacs --batch |