From: Keith David Bershatsky <esq@lawlist.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: xnrealloc: How and when to properly use it.
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 13:43:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lfztg8t6.wl%esq@lawlist.com> (raw)
I did some additional testing today and confirmed that assigning the returned value of xnrealloc back to w->mc_elts.caches has resolved the issue.
Thank you for the help -- greatly appreciated!
Keith
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> Date: [04-27-2019 18:51:51] <27 Apr 2019 18:51:51 -0700>
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> To: Keith David Bershatsky <esq@lawlist.com>
> Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: xnrealloc: How and when to properly use it.
>
> Keith David Bershatsky wrote:
> > On a W32 build of Emacs (built with MinGW_32 and ezwinports downloaded a few years ago), my usage of xnrealloc (more often than not) causes Emacs to crash when_not_ running under gdb.
>
> Try the GDB command 'set disable-randomization off'. Of course this makes
> debugging more ... interesting.
>
> + /* Decrease the size of the array to a bare minimum. */
> + xnrealloc (w->mc_elts.caches, 1, sizeof *w->mc_elts.caches);
>
> That can't be right; at the very least you need to assign the returned value of xnrealloc back to w->mc_elts.caches.
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