From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
Cc: 52461@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52461: spontaneous crash with portable dumper
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:52:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zgp4la58.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOqdjBeCQuTO503suUZCo0nQWgD9-44HyUQAp1xjL5NBXHZLFg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Pip Cet on Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:43:55 +0000)
> From: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:43:55 +0000
> Cc: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>, 52461@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> What we can try is debugging the crashing temacs binary, setting a
> breakpoint to the point where define-charset-internal calls xpalloc
> (in a very strange manner), at about line 1126 in charset.c, and zero
> the memory after the call by executing
> memset (new_table, 0, new_size * sizeof (new_table[0]))
> in the debugger (I don't use lldb so I'm not sure precisely how to do
> that), then continuing to the memcpy.
>
> If that fixes things, we should make the obvious change, I think.
Sounds like a plan, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-13 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-13 1:38 bug#52461: spontaneous crash with portable dumper YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2021-12-13 1:44 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2021-12-13 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-13 14:43 ` Pip Cet
2021-12-13 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-12-14 8:04 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2021-12-14 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-15 3:04 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2021-12-15 3:24 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2021-12-15 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-15 4:15 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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