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From: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: help debugging a segfault
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:28:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f53409af-c931-4eda-b49f-4ee3e36b7e18@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec319455-840a-4b75-82f6-73fbb5115224@googlegroups.com>

On Monday, 17 October 2016 21:16:35 UTC+1, Sam Halliday  wrote:
> Thread 1 "emacs" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> re_search_2 (bufp=bufp@entry=0xc2d460 <searchbufs+2912>, str1=str1@entry=0x597b790 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x597b790>, size1=size1@entry=0, 
>     str2=str2@entry=0x597b790 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x597b790>, size2=65565, startpos=646, startpos@entry=623, range=509, 
>     regs=0xc2c8d0 <search_regs>, stop=1155) at regex.c:4464
> 4464		      int len = BYTES_BY_CHAR_HEAD (*p);
... 
> Could anybody please shed some light on what could be going wrong? I also have a core dump file but I have no idea what to do with it, I've never used gdb in anger.

Typing "bt" when loading the coredump gives

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007fe8cbfabf5f in ?? ()
#1  0x00000000005da106 in mapcar1 (leni=11, vals=<optimized out>, fn=40, seq=498) at fns.c:2494
#2  0xffffffffffffffff in ?? ()
#3  0xffffffffffffffff in ?? ()
#4  0xffffffffffffffff in ?? ()
#5  0xffffffffffffffff in ?? ()
#6  0xffffffffffffffff in ?? ()
#7  0xffffffffffffffff in ?? ()
#8  0xffffffffffffffff in ?? ()
#9  0x000000000000000b in ?? ()
#10 0x00000000004ee994 in Finternal_merge_in_global_face (face=2, frame=12113136) at xfaces.c:3669
#11 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()


  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-17 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-17 20:16 help debugging a segfault Sam Halliday
2016-10-17 20:28 ` Sam Halliday [this message]
2016-10-18  5:48   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-18  7:35   ` Sam Halliday
2016-10-18  9:12     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-17 21:17 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-10-18  5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii

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