[comp.emacs] gnu-emacs on the ibm-rt

tbl@k.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP (03/13/87)

I have encountered the following problem usings gnu-emacs version 18.36
on the ibm-rt running ibm's version of 4.2BSD:

Running emacs from my home directory and executing 

(file-attributes ".")

causes a Fatal Error (11).  The segmentation violation occurs in the
function print while trying to print the first element of the list
returned from file attributes.  It appears that emacs things this
element is a window object(?!).

A different but possibly related problem is a Fatal Error(11) during
garbage collection.  This seems to happen more frequently after making
many calls to the functions defined in dired.c. (Note* We're making
all these calls because we have written a really (REALLY) fast version
of dired.  If we can get our emacs to stop crashing I'll feel
confident enough to release the new dired to the net.).

Please, if you have any idea what to do about these errors let me know
(either through the net or by email).

Thanks, all.


Thomas Lord

tbl@k.cs.cmu.edu  or lord@andrew.cmu.edu take your pick.