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I have noticed many complaints of Emacs crashing, often related to the
use of the X menu package.  The cause of this problem on AViiON
machines turned out to be a malloc/calloc incompatibility due to an
ANSI name-space feature which was recently added to DG/UX (Rev 4.20).
This problem may be plaguing other systems as well.  Briefly,
allocations which use calloc will NOT call the Gnu alloc, but
subsequent calls to free will call the Gnu code likely resulting in an
abort.  I fixed the problem by adding the following code to malloc.c:

GENERIC *
calloc(num, size)
unsigned num, size;
{
  register char *mp;

  if((mp = malloc(num *= size)) != NULL)
    (void)memset(mp, 0, num);
  return(mp);
}

Hope this helps.


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