Re: bootstrap & memory allocation troubles

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-01-14 11:14, "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> wrote:
>     Hmmm.  Comment it out HAVE_POSIX_MEMALIGN in src/config.h
>     allows Emacs to bootstrap quite fine with the new malloc()
>     implementation too.  Very nice.  At least, we know how to
>     repeat and work around the bug now :)
>
> If FreeBSD fixes this, we are done.  Otherwise, we are not done
> yet--we need to change the Emacs configuration files so that
> the same effect will occur.

Sure.  I'm testing a new malloc implementation now, which was
committed to CURRENT after the one that has problems with
posix_memalign().  It will take a day or so, because the old
packages I have installed need to be rebuilt, but I'll follow up
with the effects of this new malloc.