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From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, 3521@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3521: Progress on bug#3521? mode-line updates break process-send-region
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:58:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d48o848g.fsf@randomsample.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2my7snmij.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:15:00 +0200")

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
>> On my 32-bit machine, the error occurs earlier.  But If I insert an
>> `erase-buffer' call into your loop, so that the size of the temporary
>> buffer is bounded, Emacs completes the 999999-iteration loop without any
>> error.
>
> The whole point of the test case is the big size of the buffer string.
> This is a typical symptom of a GC bug.  I have checked in a fix.

Thank you! The bug is fixed for me.

It doesn't really matter anymore, but for what it's worth, I think this
bug was introduced with the merge of the unicode branch on
2008-02-01. But just when I wanted to dig further, Andreas checked in
the fix. :-)

-David





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-28 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-28  9:46 Progress on bug#3521? mode-line updates break process-send-region Tassilo Horn
2009-06-28 14:53 ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-28 15:56   ` Tassilo Horn
2009-06-28 16:07     ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-28 20:15       ` Andreas Schwab
2009-06-28 20:39         ` Tassilo Horn
2009-06-28 20:58         ` David Engster [this message]
2009-06-29  6:56           ` Tassilo Horn

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