allbery@UUNET.UU.NET (Brandon S. Allbery - comp.sources.misc) (03/11/89)
I have been trying to bring up Emacs 18.53 on an Altos 386 Series 2000 running Altos System V. I can get temacs to compile, but the resulting program seems to have problems. "temacs -batch -l inc-vers" gets "Illegal function: #<buffer *scratch*>". "temacs -l loadup" gets "Fatal error (6)", which I've traced to the garbage collection code apparently not recognizing something in memory. I've tried both the standard and the Xenix (Altos SysV shares a lot in common with Xenix, but uses COFF, etc. from System V) definitions for the various GCTYPEBITS, etc. I also replaced an alloca() which doesn't work with the C version. Does anyone out there know what might cause this? I'd really like to have a real editor for a change. Thanks in advance, ++Brandon