Re: crash on powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0

[Dan Nicolaescu]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

  >     All the changes needed to get Emacs running on this system are below.
  > 
  >     May I check this in?
  > 
  > Yes, but I do expect that there will be other crashes, 

I checked this in together with an explanation of what is happening
and possible solutions. This should be enough for now. 

  > since some other libc functions probably call malloc.  For
  > instance, what about opendir?

Yep, there will be crashes whenever Emacs tries to call xfree or
xrealloc on pointers returned by any libc functions that return
malloced memory. This has always been the case on AIX for as far I can
see in the CVS history. So it was just by chance that we never had a
crash until recently because of this. 


      --dan