[4804] in Athena Bugs
vax 6.4r: emacs core dump
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri Apr 20 03:44:53 1990
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 90 03:44:39 -0400
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.Edu>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I was doing a lot of byte-compiling of some code in my home directory
(basically the same code I use every day for initialization, with some
very minor variations), when emacs told me that a file on disk had
changed since it had last been read. I said yes, I did want to edit
it (assuming that it was the .elc file), and emacs dumped core.
The core file is in multics:/site/raeburn/core.emacs.2. It looks like
a call to alloca with a very large argument was responsible (which
probably means an object pointer was pointing to the wrong place).
