From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Crash in face_at_buffer_position
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:10:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzi3e01s.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480378C7.5050904@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:31:19 +0200")
>> Most likely the SIGSEGV is nothing more than stack-overflow because of
>> "infinite" recursion and the bug is probably not in
>> face_at_buffer_position.
>
> But how can I see where it is? The parameters to
> face_at_buffer_position looks strange. Maybe that is something useful?
It might be that the code in xdisp.c could be rewritten to avoid the
risk of buffer overflow. Could you send a reproducible crash recipe, if
possible?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-15 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-14 13:56 23.0.60; Crash in face_at_buffer_position Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-14 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-14 15:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-15 13:10 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-04-15 17:43 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-15 18:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-15 23:37 ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-20 22:27 ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-20 22:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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