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> From: Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu>
> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:58:40 -0600
> 
> How to debug this?

Run Emacs under a debugger and when it gets SIGSEGV, look around to
see what went wrong.  The file etc/DEBUG in the Emacs distro has
several hints on debugging Emacs.

> Here is the script I used
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> MYEMACS=$1
> $MYEMACS --batch \
>  --load ~/site-lisp/joes_loads.el \
>  --execute "(dump-emacs \"femacs\" \"$MYEMACS\")"

Replace $MYEMACS with "gdb $MYEMACS --args", that will run Emacs
under GDB.