Recipe: Launch emacs -Q. C-x C-f emacs-bug-038.el M-x eval-buffer Wait for approximately one minute. The contents of emacs-bug-038.el are: ------ (run-with-timer 0 .01 (lambda () (message (make-string 1 0)))) (while t (let ((f (make-frame))) (sit-for .1) (delete-frame f))) ------ The repository is unmodified Emacs HEAD; while the CFLAGS contain an extra option to dump gimple trees, I believe that should have no influence on the produced code. I have attached a full gdb log. I have been unable to reproduce this bug with emacs -Q --load emacs-bug-038.el. Please let me know if I can provide any further information or do anything else to help fix this bug. In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.14 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.16.6) of 2015-09-01 Repository revision: da88ad6cb1e98ef9f28462648ab53d81d22dd189 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11702000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) Configured using: 'configure 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3 -fdump-tree-gimple-vops-verbose-raw-lineno'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode easymenu cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 81444 9134) (symbols 48 19017 0) (miscs 40 42 136) (strings 32 13315 4665) (string-bytes 1 380651) (vectors 16 11238) (vector-slots 8 413731 5198) (floats 8 131 60) (intervals 56 189 0) (buffers 976 11) (heap 1024 18466 983))