Re: segmentation fault in allocate_string

[Richard Stallman]

    #13 <signal handler called>
    #14 allocate_string () at 
/vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/src/alloc.c:1584
    ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- 
    #15 0x0013b2e4 in make_uninit_multibyte_string (nchars=4, nbytes=4)
        at /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/src/alloc.c:2142
    #16 0x0013b2ac in make_uninit_string (length=4)
        at /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/src/alloc.c:2123

Can you look at the data in those frames to see
what was the cause of the crash?

There is no point looking at the innermost frame.
Everything inside frame 13 is just a response to the signal
triggered by frame 14.