Re: My tex file became chaos code without any sake when I reopen it.

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Piet van Oostrum <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Hongyi Zhao <address@hidden> (HZ) wrote:
> >HZ> Dear Kenichi and others,
> >HZ> I encountered a strange thing, the attached is my tex file which I 
> >reopen it
> >HZ> when I restart my PC, but I find it becomes chaos codes, whose default
> >HZ> encoding scheme is GB18030.  I've used all the methods to revert it but 
> >all
> >HZ> these methods like water off a duck's back.

> >HZ> Sigh.  It this a bug of Emacs, or anything I don't know?  Who can tell 
> >me?

> It typically looks like some file corruptions that I have met occasionally.
> It happened to me when I run out of diskspace. Then there isn't enough
> swapspace available and virtual memory allocation may fail. I think that
> Emacs doesn't check properly if a malloc fails and then corrupts its memory
> when a malloc fails. I have no idea if that might be the cause of your
> memory corruption, but I have had several times (let's say once a month)
> file corruptions.

Did you see that file corruptions only with emacs-unicode-2
branch?  Or does it happen with HEAD too?

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Kenichi Handa
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