[gnu.emacs.bug] Emacs 18.54 loses it with small screens

greg@cheers.uucp (Greg Onufer) (01/05/90)

Gnu Emacs 18.54 will do serious damage to itself (User Stack Pointer
is munged, messages printed on console to that effect, etc.) if
run on a terminal which has 23 columns and 4 rows (HP-28S Screen
Size).

I did not expect it to work, but it did die rather ungraciously.

Machine: Sun 100U
Processor: MC68010
OS: SunOS 4.0
Compiler: gcc 1.36
Compiler Options: Not less than "-O -g -fstrength-reduce -traditional", but may
          have been different

Cheers!greg

rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) (01/06/90)

In article <%TJF&$.5255@cheers.uucp>, greg@cheers (Greg Onufer) writes:
]Gnu Emacs 18.54 will do serious damage to itself (User Stack Pointer
]is munged, messages printed on console to that effect, etc.) if
]run on a terminal which has 23 columns and 4 rows (HP-28S Screen
]Size).

Anything less than 5 columns and 5 rows (or something like that) will
cause emacs to fail.  This necessitated a bizarre workaround in the X
code.
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