I posted compressed versions of the full backtrace to the bug on debbugs. On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:33 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > There will be likely a lot of repetition here as this sounds like an > infinite recursion. Just the end and the start of the traceback (enough > to recognize the pattern in the middle) should be enough. The traceback > will likely be because of stack overflow. > Basically the conclusion I came to after examining the backtrace. Before Glenn suggested compressing the full content and attaching it, that's what I had done. Though of course I didn't think of including the top entries until after I'd posted the bottom ones... > You can use ulimit (see its man page) to limit the available stack space > in advance: that should allow you to get a backtrace that is reasonably > short even without manual intervention. Just be sure that it's not > bombing out because of a regular operation. > Good idea! Now if only I could reproduce this crash... Also, sorry if posting about this on emacs-devel was a bit out of place. -- Geoff Nothing is ever easy.