Subject: Re: bug#17598: Emacs pretest 24.3.91 - AIX - SIGSEV when customize

From: Dmitry Antipov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 11:48:13 +0400

On 05/27/2014 07:38 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> If it's still crashing, that suggests the problem is not in unexaix.c after all, unfortunately.

Is it possible to run undumped (i.e. temacs) on AIX? If there is an issue with
unexec, it shouldn't affect undumped executable.

> What happens if you run "./configure --enable-checking=all && make"?

Latest backtrace (with SIGSEGV in malloc) is probably caused by heap corruption.
Are there some built-in debugging facilities in AIX malloc implementation
(something similar to glibc mcheck, for example)?

Dmitry