Re: Ediff frequently crashes emacs.

[Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com>]

no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Could you at least post the backtraces (bt, xbacktrace) whenever it
> crashes. Thanks.

Okay, here's another one, again while using ediff.

-Peter

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr2/cvs/emacs/src/emacs -geometry 80x40+0+0

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x420824ed in bcopy () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x420824ed in bcopy () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1  0x0804ff1f in safe_bcopy (from=0x89b3268 "\250b\214\t", to=0x9a17cf0 "", 
    size=160195232) at dispnew.c:484
#2  0x08125694 in compact_small_strings () at alloc.c:2038
#3  0x0812896b in gc_sweep () at alloc.c:5372
#4  0x08127a05 in Fgarbage_collect () at alloc.c:4699
#5  0x080e5a19 in read_char (commandflag=1, nmaps=2, maps=0xbffff250, 
    prev_event=137284881, used_mouse_menu=0xbffff288) at keyboard.c:2773
#6  0x080ec2b4 in read_key_sequence (keybuf=0xbffff3b0, bufsize=30, 
    prompt=137284881, dont_downcase_last=0, can_return_switch_frame=1, 
    fix_current_buffer=1) at keyboard.c:8788
#7  0x080e392b in command_loop_1 () at keyboard.c:1528
#8  0x081390a2 in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x80e360c <command_loop_1>, 
    handlers=137345857, hfun=0x80e31b0 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1382
#9  0x080e3496 in command_loop_2 () at keyboard.c:1309
#10 0x08138c53 in internal_catch (tag=137339865, 
    func=0x80e3478 <command_loop_2>, arg=137284881) at eval.c:1143
#11 0x080e3425 in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1288
#12 0x080e2f6f in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:981
#13 0x080e3097 in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1042
#14 0x080e1f37 in main (argc=3, argv=0xbffff984) at emacs.c:1742
#15 0x42017499 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb) xbacktrace
(gdb) 



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Peter Seibel                                      peter@javamonkey.com

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