Re: pkg/50894: emacs 24.5 core dumps on startup on NetBSD 7.0 i386 on VMWare

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50894; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/50894: emacs 24.5 core dumps on startup on NetBSD 7.0 i386
 on VMWare
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 19:51:13 +0100

 On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 06:10:00PM +0000, jovan.trujillo2%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
 > I installed emacs-24.5 through pkgin from main NetBSD ftp server. I
 > try to run it from both the terminal and xterm and it immediately core
 > dumps with a memory fault. I'm running NetBSD on VMWare Player 6.0.7
 > on Windows 7 with 1 GB of virtual RAM. 
 
 This is a known bug of Emacs when build on either a 64bit host or Xen.
 Since the top 1GB of the address space is no longer reserved, things get
 loaded at those positions, but after the coredumping / unexec procedure,
 a startup on "real" non-Xen i386 no longer works since those areas are
 no reserved. No fix is currently known.
 
 Joerg