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Re: address@hidden: RE: emacs 22.1 on hp-ux 11.11 core dumps when DISPLA


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: address@hidden: RE: emacs 22.1 on hp-ux 11.11 core dumps when DISPLAY not set]
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:38:06 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> In Emacs we don't use static vars at less than file scope.  I don't
> 100% remember the reason why.

See src/s/hpux.h, for example:

/* USG systems tend to put everything declared static
   into the initialized data area, which becomes pure after dumping Emacs.
   Foil this.  Emacs carefully avoids static vars inside functions.  */

#define static

Andreas.

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