Re: In FOR-RELEASE

[Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>]

Reiner Steib writes:
 > On Fri, Jun 17 2005, Richard Stallman wrote:
 > 
 > > FOR-RELEASE mentiones these bugs:
 > >
 > >     ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.
 > >
 > >     ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
 > >     invalid pointer from string_free_list.
 > >
 > > They were reported a long time ago, before we realized it was a good
 > > idea to copy the actual bug reports there.  They have not been
 > > reported recently that I recall.  Does anyone recall seeing such
 > > bugs recently?
 > >
 > > Is there any reason to think they are fixed already?
 > >
 > > Could someone possibly search for these bug reports,
 > > see who reported them, etc?
 > 
...
 > This problem was solved later, IIRC.  I didn't see this problem in the
 > last months.
 > 
 > A different one concerning compact_small_strings was:
 > 
 > ,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/4371 ]
 > | From: Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
 > | Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs
 > | Subject: seg fault in compact_small_strings()
 > | Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:49:55 +0100
 > | To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
 > `----
 > 
 > Kim F. Storm sent a patch and Stephen Eglen posted a different
 > backtrace.


With CVS of 2005-05-31, I still get occasional dumps (once/twice a
week), and they usually seem to be when I'm going to get new mail
using VM 7.17.  I am now running emacs under gdb again so the next
time I get an error, I can send a backtrace to whoever wants to see
it!  But am I the only one who sees them nowadays?

M-x emacs-version

GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.0.6) of
2005-05-31 on notch.amtp.cam.ac.uk


Stephen