From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-21.1.94 crash in gnus on Windows Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:49:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <84634x887o.fsf@gmail.com> <4B9F7F5F.1040504@gmail.com> <84eijkm21x.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268777039 8757 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2010 22:03:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 16 23:03:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nrer6-0003Z5-8R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:03:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51282 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NreeM-0002FM-VS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NreeJ-0002FH-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51647 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NreeI-0002F8-Gw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NreeH-00026f-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:51064) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nredq-00024e-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NredQ-0008G2-30; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:49:08 -0400 In-reply-to: <84eijkm21x.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Andy Moreton on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:42:02 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122073 Archived-At: > From: Andy Moreton > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:42:02 +0000 > > >> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > >> 0x01030355 in pos_visible_p (w=0x307c800, charpos=0x5ad, x=0x82f0c4, > >> y=0x82f0c0, rtop=0x82f0d8, > >> rbot=0x82f0d4, rowh=0x82f0d0, vpos=0x82f0cc) at xdisp.c:1396 > >> 1396 for (; glyph < end > > > > Hmm, that's a strange place to get hit by SIGSEGV. Can you try to see > > what exactly caused the crash? When in doubt, I usually disassemble > > the vicinity of the address where it crashed (0x01030355 in this > > case), find the instruction that crashed, and then compare the > > disassembly to the source to find which source line the failed > > instruction came from. The GDB command "info line" might help in the > > initial estimation of the source line to which the failed address > > belongs. > > I'll try to reproduce it and report back if I can shed any further > light. I haven't supplied any command line arguments when running under > gdb - do I need to use "-Q" to get something you can reproduce ? I doubt that this will help: it's hard to use Gnus with absolutely no customizations, especially on Windows. For now, I'm trying to understand what object causes the crash, and why. That might give more ideas. Thanks.