Re: pkg/46632: i386 emacs can't be build in 32bit emulation on amd64

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46632; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/46632: i386 emacs can't be build in 32bit emulation on amd64
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:12:49 +0000

 On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:00:01AM +0000, ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost 
wrote:
  > The problem might be that our 32bit emulation environment allows for more 
  > address space to be used than available on real NetBSD/i386; I think the 
  > latter reserves the upper 2^24 or 2^28 bytes for the kernel?
 
 That is a good bet. Does nm -n on the dumped emacs show anything
 suggestive?
 
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 David A. Holland
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