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On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     (gdb) p *current_buffer
>     $7 = {
>       size = 537002092, 
>       next = 0x10765200, 
>       own_text = {
> 	beg = 0x4060018 <Address 0x4060018 out of bounds>,
> 
> If this is what happens, I suggest you add code at the places
> that set the beg field which will check whether the new
> value is invalid.

The `size' member looks very suspicious as well, no?