Subject: bug#51608: 27.2; crash on Apple Sillicon

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 00:20:43 +0100

Alan Glasser <[email-masked]> writes:

> I have installed Emacs Version 27-2 (9.0) on both a MacBook Pro 15" 2018
> with Intel Core i9; and a MacBook Pro 16" 2021 with Apple Silicon M1
> Max.  This version of Emacs is supposed to be Universal, i.e. both Intel
> and Apple hardware.

Which installer/pre-built binary is this about?  There's several of them
around...

> It works correctly on Intel.  It crashes on M1 with
> the message "Emacs-s86_64-10_14 quit unexpectedly."  Here is a report
> given in that message:
>
> -------------------------------------
> Translated Report (Full Report Below)
> -------------------------------------
>
> Process:               Emacs-x86_64-10_14 [7048]

It certainly looks like it's trying to run the Intel version of the
binary, and not the ARM one.

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