'6000 emacs (was Re: Two most popular questions on AIX 3.1, I bet)

[Marc Pawliger]

In article <1990Nov2.164937.12492 at bony1.uucp>, richieb at bony1.uucp (Richard Bielak) writes:
|> In article <2388 at anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> newton at ils.nwu.edu (David Newton) writes:
|> >In article <1990Oct30.150332.19529 at odi.com>, benson at odi.com (Benson I.
|> >Margulies) writes:
|> >
|> >|>2) anyone got gnu emacs working?
|> >
|> >   Yup.
|>
|> I got GNU emacs working as well. But has anyone a dumped GNU emacs
|> working? What about xemacs? 

A dumped gnumacs will be next to impossible on a '6000.  The unexec()
included in the distribution assumes a fixed text load address so that
offsets will be correct when the dumped gnumacs is exec'd.  As I under-
stand things, the '6000's loader does not always load executables at the
same address, so gnumacs will die horribly.  So take heart that all the
files loaded from loadup.el load quickly.

These are my opinions, not IBM's etc etc etc

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