From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: In FOR-RELEASE
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:08:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v91x6xw4z2.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DjLs0-0006F9-Id@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:47:12 -0400")
On Fri, Jun 17 2005, Richard Stallman wrote:
> FOR-RELEASE mentiones these bugs:
>
> ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.
>
> ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
> invalid pointer from string_free_list.
>
> They were reported a long time ago, before we realized it was a good
> idea to copy the actual bug reports there. They have not been
> reported recently that I recall. Does anyone recall seeing such
> bugs recently?
>
> Is there any reason to think they are fixed already?
>
> Could someone possibly search for these bug reports,
> see who reported them, etc?
I've submitted a bug report concerning compact_small_strings:
,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/3866 ]
| From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>
| Subject: redisplay problem (compact_small_strings)
| To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
| Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:35:03 +0200
| Reply-To: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
| Message-ID: <v9d60qqj14.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
`----
This problem was solved later, IIRC. I didn't see this problem in the
last months.
A different one concerning compact_small_strings was:
,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/4371 ]
| From: Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
| Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs
| Subject: seg fault in compact_small_strings()
| Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:49:55 +0100
| To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
`----
Kim F. Storm sent a patch and Stephen Eglen posted a different
backtrace.
Some search results for compact_small_strings on emacs-devel are:
| From: Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
| Subject: Fix to long-standing crashes in GC
| To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
| Date: 2004-05-12 13:19:54 GMT
| From: Bob Halley <halley@play-bow.org>
| Subject: random core dumps
| To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
| Date: 2002-12-05 12:06:14 GMT
| From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
| Subject: cvs head crash in GC
| To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
| Date: 2003-04-01 00:24:56 GMT
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-20 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-17 18:47 In FOR-RELEASE Richard Stallman
2005-06-20 13:08 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2005-06-20 17:16 ` Stephen Eglen
2005-06-21 1:02 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-21 2:00 ` Richard Stallman
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