Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!mkhaw From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: The impossible happens - SIGIOT on Sun-3 Message-ID: <23550@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> Date: 30 Jun 88 23:51:02 GMT Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA Lines: 17 We have a user (no, really, it wasn't me) who got a core dump with a message about "IOT instruction" while running GNU Emacs 18.41 on a Sun 3/50 running SunOS 3.5. The only reference I can find to IOT in the man files is in sigvec(2), where it says under SIGIOT: IOT trap (not generated on Suns) !!! What's going on here? Thanks, Mike Khaw -- internet: mkhaw@teknowledge.arpa uucp: {uunet|sun|ucbvax|decwrl|uw-beaver}!mkhaw%teknowledge.arpa hardcopy: Teknowledge Inc, 1850 Embarcadero Rd, POB 10119, Palo Alto, CA 94303