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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: problem installing clisp on FreeBSD
Date: 7 Jan 1994 00:06:03 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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Message-ID: <2gi91b$895@u.cc.utah.edu>
References: <CJ5pyn.Lq6@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
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In article <CJ5pyn.Lq6@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wongm@latcs2.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) writes:
[ ... ]
>lespoir# make compiled.mem
>./lisp.run -M interpreted.mem -q -c init.lsp
>./lisp.run: operating system error during load of initialisation file
>errno = 14.
>*** Error code 1
[ ... ]

banzai% grep 14 /usr/include/sys/errno.h
#define EFAULT          14              /* Bad address */
[ ... ]

Most likely the program is doing something nasty with a NULL pointer or
an sbrk... did you get a core file?

Load the program and the core into a debugger and get a traceback to see
the actual location (function) of the fault, and isolate it from there.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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