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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index cc591d6e1f..6d5ee0498c 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2778,19 +2778,11 @@ build Emacs in a directory on a local disk. *** The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data. -Two causes have been seen for such problems. - -1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined +On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined as a macro. If the definition (in both unex*.c and malloc.c) is wrong, it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct value in the man page for a.out (5). -2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the -initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most -of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and -not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you -may need to add "#define static" to config.h. - * Runtime problems on legacy systems This section covers bugs reported on very old hardware or software. |