> > Thanks. But I'd like to see the report from your normal session, > invoked just as you invoke those that crash. > Of course now I don't have such a session b/c I'm running w/ git HEAD :) So this seems to say that there's at least one overlay string at > buffer position 1295. Is that reasonable? What was the current > buffer when this crashed? You can find that out by typing this at GDB > prompt: > (gdb) pp current_buffer->name_ > (gdb) pp current_buffer->name_ Cannot access memory at address 0x8b6a00 > (gdb) p current_buffer->text->beg[1200]@100 > (gdb) p current_buffer->text->beg[1200]@100 $1 = "num to avoid later static_cast in\n// PluginInstance.\nenum MediaKeyError {\n kUnknownError = 1,\n kCl" which tells me the current buffer was an edited version of http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/webkit/media/crypto/ppapi/cdm_wrapper.cc?view=markup(which I can't share in its entirety). FWIW, there's nothing non-7-bit-ascii in this file, and nothing that should have triggered any bidi-specific logic. It's just a cc-mode C++ file. Possibly interestingly, if I print p current_buffer->text->beg[0]@100000 to emit the entire buffer, I see this text starting at char 1675: http://go", '\000' , "/b Those 2000 NULs are definitely out of place (the URL should have started with http://go/b) but I don't know if that's a debugging artifact, or what. If I load the modified buffer into my HEAD session (overlays-at 1295) returns nil. Also, what do the following commands produce? > (gdb) frame 6 > (gdb) pgrowx it->glyph_row > >> > (gdb) frame 6 > #6 0x0000000000447aa1 in pop_it (it=0x7fff2251f1e0) at xdisp.c:5769 > 5769 bidi_pop_it (&it->bidi_it); > (gdb) pgrowx it->glyph_row You can't do that without a process to debug. Cheers, -a