Emergency Mode in 1.8.0alpha2... CRASHES
Pavel Curtis (pavel@parc.xerox.com)
Wed, 27 Dec 1995 13:20:11 PST
Nate Massey writes:
> At first I thought it was just a bug in my OS/2 port, but in trying
> it on Solaris, emergency mode crashes everytime I try to eval anything.
> When I type ';0' it gets a signal 11 and panic dumps...
I was indeed able to reproduce the bug on my local Solaris machine; it looks
like it was some kind of nasty memory-smash bug. I've fixed a number of leaks
and other memory-nastiness bugs in 1.8.0alpha3, and that appears to have fixed
this problem as well. Expect alpha3's release later today.
Pavel