Compiling 64 bit emacs for Power4/Aix-5.2

[Larry Hunter]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (rs6000-ibm-aix5.1.0.0, X toolkit)
 of 2003-03-03 on hal
configured using `configure  --host=rs6000-ibm-aix5.1.0.0'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I am trying to compile emacs in 64 bit mode (for large buffers) on an
IBM p690.  It's a Power4 processor running AIX 5.2

An emacs 21.2 distributed by IBM compiles with the native cc (xlc)
using 32 bit mode: `configure --host=rs6000-ibm-aix5.1.0.0'.  I
figured I would start from that to try to move to 64 bit mode.  The OS
and Machine files used are `s/aix4-2.h' and `m/ibmrs6000.h'  This bug
report was generated from within the working 32 bit version.

So far, I have changed lwlib/Makefile.in to use the -X64 flag in AR:

               AR = ar -X64 cq

and done 

  CFLAGS='-q64 -qarch=pwr4' LDFLAGS='-q64 -qarch=pwr4' ./configure  
--host=rs6000-ibm-aix5.1.0.0 

"make" works through invoking temacs, but then segfaults:

        LC_ALL=C ./temacs -batch -l loadup dump
make: 1254-059 The signal code from the last command is 11.

A backtrace shows the problem is in Fmake_symbol: 

# dbx ./temacs core
Type 'help' for help.
[using memory image in core]
reading symbolic information ...

Segmentation fault in Fmake_symbol at 0x10003c0e4 ($t1)
0x10003c0e4 (Fmake_symbol+0x154) f8640000        std   r3,0x0(r4)
(dbx) where
Fmake_symbol(0x300000011003e4f8) at 0x10003c0e4
init_obarray() at 0x100058b10
main(0x500000005, 0x200feae0, 0x200feb10) at 0x100000e8c

The PROBLEMS advice about temacs segfaults are to check the amount of
swap space, but it's enormous (>64GB) on this machine. 

So I am stumped.  Suggestions?

Thanks!

Larry

Larry.Hunter@uchsc.edu


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