edward@luna.math.ucla.edu (Edward Dergharapetian) (05/03/91)
Hi folks-- This may have been discussed before, so please bear with me. When I try forwarding a letter in xmh, I get the following message at which point xmh dumps core with a "bus error": pid XXXXX (xmh) was killed on unaligned access, at pc xxxxxx When dbx'ing the file, I find out this happens when the X library tries to malloc memory that's unaligned. Has anyone experienced this, or has a solution to this problem? Please E-mail responses. Thanks, edward. Edward Dergharapetian (213) 206-6067 UCLA Mathematics Dept. 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 ARPA: edward@math.ucla.edu "Life was easy when it was boring"
rkz@scrc.symbolics.COM (Randolph K. Zeitvogel) (05/03/91)
Date: 2 May 91 17:51:14 GMT From: edward@luna.math.ucla.edu (Edward Dergharapetian) Organization: UCLA Mathematics Dept. Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.mail.mh,comp.unix.ultrix Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu Hi folks-- This may have been discussed before, so please bear with me. When I try forwarding a letter in xmh, I get the following message at which point xmh dumps core with a "bus error": pid XXXXX (xmh) was killed on unaligned access, at pc xxxxxx When dbx'ing the file, I find out this happens when the X library tries to malloc memory that's unaligned. Has anyone experienced this, or has a solution to this problem? Please E-mail responses. Thanks, edward. Edward Dergharapetian (213) 206-6067 UCLA Mathematics Dept. 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 ARPA: edward@math.ucla.edu "Life was easy when it was boring" DEC recommands using valloc (which page aligns the allocated memory). I have the same problem with the MACSYMA that I have ported to the DECstation. There also appears to be some relationship with paging and network activity. Randy Zeitvogel Symbolics MACSYMA division Internet: rkz@tyrannosaurus.scrc.symbolics.com