Re: Release update

[Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert@gmail.com>]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>> - Emacs.app on Mac OS X crashes at random times and the error is not
>>  logged and can't be debugged.  This needs to be fixed or it's simply
>>  not possible to produce a viable environment for real work.
>
> Have you tried running Emacs in a debugger?
>
> Adrian, have you observed these crashes?  Do you have any idea what
> causes them?

I use Emacs.app heavily on a daily basis on 10.4 and 10.5 for English  
and Chinese text editing and program editing/compilation and don't get  
crashes.  However I don't use more complex modes like gud, gnus, and  
image-viewing.  (Though I was using ecb for a while.)  I don't know  
what the problem would be but if it is intermittent all I can suggest  
is building with no optimization, just -g, to get a better stack  
trace, and running from gdb (cd emacs/src ; gdb ../nextstep/Emacs.app/ 
Contents/MacOS/Emacs).