Re: XEmacs 21.4.17 on HP-UX 11.23/IA-64

Aidan> SuSE reported problems with pdump on IA 64, but I'd try compiling Aidan> --with-pdump before being confident that XEmacs won't work there. IIRC the IA-64's architecture is significantly incompatible with pdump. This is because function pointers are really function descriptors that can contain a field that is not guaranteed to be constant across invocations. XEmacs will build and even pass the unit tests but might not work after the machine is rebooted. SuSe had a pretty invasive patch to fix this (by reinitialised all function pointers in dumped data upon startup) but it's never made it into our official releases. Malcolm - Typing this from just rebuilt Linux PPC64 partition. -- Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org&gt;