more on the emacs-20.3 segfault

Wolfram Gloger wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
Mon May 31 00:44:00 GMT 1999


> Unfortunately this has a very nasty side effect: the protection against
> MALLOC_CHECK_ does not work any more.  That means that Emacs will crash if
> MALLOC_CHECK_ is defined in the environment, and there is no way to fix
> that within Emacs (the malloc_initialize_hook runs too late).

OK, I'll take a look at whether this can be fixed in malloc.

Regards,
Wolfram.
-- 
`Surf the sea, not double-u three...'
wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de


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