Re: apparent AIX 5.2 undump problem for 22.0.90 pretest

[Joe Buehler]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     However, there is probably a flaw in undump here that is likely
>     to cause other problems.  It appears that state is being preserved
>     across undump that should not be.
>
> We have to depend on AIX users to debug this.
> Can you describe the symptoms?
>
> Meanwhile, I am sure it is possible to make some change so that getloadavg
> will not try to access kmem while building Emacs.  Want to try?
>   
This is related to another post of mine to emacs-devel regarding the AIX
undump.  The problem here is that
the AIX undump is saving ALL of bss, and getloadavg stores a file
descriptor in a global, which of course
is useless to saving across an unexec.  Is undump really supposed to be
saving ALL of bss?  I am a bit
suspicious that this should NOT be the case, since getloadavg is one of
the files linked in after the marker
symbols in lastfile.c.

-- 
Joe Buehler



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