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temacs 19.25 segfaults on OSF/1 3.0

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From: Neil Swinton
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 18:54
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My trusty emacs 19.22 turned quirkey when we installed DEC's brand new
OSF/1 3.0 (dired showed non-empty directories as empty, shell commands
appeared to complete with no output.)  I decided to build 19.25 with the
patches off gatekeeper in case 19.25 fixed the problem.  The alpha OSF/1
emacs wants to dump itself, but segfaulted in unexmips.c when the
rdata_section pointer was null.  GDB showed that there was no .rdata
section.  I tried changing config.h to define CANNOT_DUMP, but then temacs
couldn't find loadup.el.  Then I screwed around with unexmips without a
whole lot of luck.

Could you tell me how to build with CANNOT_DUMP and/or hook me up with
someone who can tell me more about unexmips.c?  I'd be happy to fix this
(and track down the dired/shell-command quirks.)  I've been around the ELF
block and know symbol tables from putting CMA thread awareness in gdb, but
a name or a pointer would speed things up a lot.

Neil
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