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changeset 117:08356dc1077c
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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 12 Nov 1990 20:20:43 +0000 |
| parents | 6b517878550a |
| children | 49342840ba00 |
| files | src/unexaix.c |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/src/unexaix.c Mon Nov 12 20:20:41 1990 +0000 +++ b/src/unexaix.c Mon Nov 12 20:20:43 1990 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,25 @@ +/* + This file is not used because it occasionally fails to work. This + happens because the bss address when Emacs is run is not always the + same. If it happens to be different from what it was + when Emacs was dumped, the dumped data won't work. + No one has been able to prevent the address from varying. + + The following comments should be in etc/MACHINES if this dumping + is ever made to work: + + Note that Emacs can store the pure Lisp data in a shared segment on + this machine, but only if you put this command in one of the boot + scripts + + emacs -batch -q + + so that it is run as root when the machine is booted. This command + creates a read-only shared segment owned by root. Otherwise the + pure data is not shared. The pure data size is around 100K, which + may not be enough to matter for most users of this machine. +*/ + /* Dumping and loading data areas, for Emacs under AIX. (It may also work on other kinds of system V.) Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.