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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Crash in face_at_buffer_position
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:35:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlk3gmrti.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480362A7.4010403@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon,  14 Apr 2008 15:56:55 +0200")

> I am not sure if this bug report is of any value. I believe it might have
> something to do with that I have made some bad changes to
> syntax-ppss.  Anyway, I did not expect Emacs to crash. Here is what I get
> from the debugger:

You mean you've made some changes to syntax-ppss but no changes to the
C code?  Then it indeed shouldn't be the cause of the bug (tho it might
have triggered it, of course).

> The backtrace seems to be very, very long.

Most likely the SIGSEGV is nothing more than stack-overflow because of
"infinite" recursion and the bug is probably not in
face_at_buffer_position.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-14 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-14 13:56 23.0.60; Crash in face_at_buffer_position Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-14 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-04-14 15:31   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-15 13:10     ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-15 17:43       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-15 18:33         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-15 23:37           ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-20 22:27             ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-20 22:46               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)

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