Subject: Re: bug#9684: Emacs 23.3 and 24.0.90 don't build on IRIX 6.5

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:45:59 -0700

One possibility is that it's a garbage collector bug.
You might try commenting out this line in src/s/irix6-5.h:

#define GC_MARK_STACK GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS

and building from scratch.  If this fixes the problem,
we can investigate what went wrong in stack-marking
(though that won't be fun).