Re: make bootstrap fails on Mac OS X

[Nozomu Ando]

On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 01:10 Asia/Tokyo, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > > >         malloc_freezedry_recorder: too many regions
> > >
> > > I have no idea whether your fix is correct or not, but I think it'd
> > > be interesting to try and figure out what causes the increased number
> > > of regions.
> > > Is that a new problem ?  If so when did it start and can you try to
> > > narrow down a set of commits that caused this change ?
> >
> > Yes, it is new problem.
> > It starts between 2003-07-15 0:0:0 UTC and 2003-07-16 0:0:0 UTC.
> > I think the increased number of regions caused by latest src/alloc.c
> > (1.315->1.316).
>
> That's what I feared as well.
> Is HAVE_POSIX_MEMALIGN defined in src/config.h ?

No.

> Also can you compare the byte-size of the dumped `emacs' executable
> before and after the change ?

% size 2003-07-15/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
__TEXT  __DATA  __OBJC  others  dec     hex
1368064 3141632 0       2613248 7122944 6cb000

% size 2003-07-18+unexmacosx.c-patch/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
__TEXT  __DATA  __OBJC  others  dec     hex
1368064 3158016 0       2613248 7139328 6cf000

I'm not sure this is your requested information.

> Finally, can you try to edit src/alloc.c and set BLOCK_PADDING to 
> something
> like 16 ?  What about with 64 ?

I have made bootstrap-emacs without my unexmacosx.c-patch with 
BLOCK_PADDING=16/64,
but both failed with "malloc_freezedry_recorder: too many regions".

I hope this useful.

Regards,
Nozomu Ando