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diff --git a/src/unexaix.c b/src/unexaix.c index 2957f966902..a1adff12ec9 100644 --- a/src/unexaix.c +++ b/src/unexaix.c @@ -1,3 +1,25 @@ +/* + This file is not used because it occasionally fails to work. This + happens because the bss address when Emacs is run is not always the + same. If it happens to be different from what it was + when Emacs was dumped, the dumped data won't work. + No one has been able to prevent the address from varying. + + The following comments should be in etc/MACHINES if this dumping + is ever made to work: + + Note that Emacs can store the pure Lisp data in a shared segment on + this machine, but only if you put this command in one of the boot + scripts + + emacs -batch -q + + so that it is run as root when the machine is booted. This command + creates a read-only shared segment owned by root. Otherwise the + pure data is not shared. The pure data size is around 100K, which + may not be enough to matter for most users of this machine. +*/ + /* Dumping and loading data areas, for Emacs under AIX. (It may also work on other kinds of system V.) Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |