bug jove

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Does anybody work with Jove (text editor: Jonathan Own Version of EMACS) under
Unix V.2 for 80386 (Interactive, version 1.0.2) ?

I have a problem with loading big files (more than 400,000 bytes): the buffer
is overwritten with memory (dynamics string variables) from the beginning of
the buffer.
Is it a problem with brk() and sbrk() ? (because I tried the inbedded version
of malloc(), as well as Jonathan's one (#define MY_MALLOC): same result), or
is it a story with memory segments, or "int" which should be "long", or a
non-portable assignment in Jove (relative to byte order in words ?...), or just
something else, maybe nothing to fix ?... (suspected files: malloc.c, buf.c,
insert.c,..., or the machine itself, Compaq 80386, or the operating system
- outdated version) ?

- this bug does not appear on other different machines that I've tested,
  and such a file is easily editable under "vi" -

It's a pity, because Jove is a very good text editor, pleasant to the
beginners, entirely configurable, and powerful (multi-files, windows, ...).
Maybe I should use EMACS, but I've heard it's much bigger (sources are
13 Mb, vs 0.6 Mb for Jove).


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