bug#47244: 28.0.50; SIGSEGV in long-runnning Emacs

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@cert.org> writes:

> martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
>
>>  > Don't know where to go from here, but I have a breakpoint set on
>>  >
>>  >        replace_buffer_in_windows_safely_count = 0;
>>  >
>>  > conditioned on count != 0.
>>
>> Good.  IIUC this
>>
>>  > (gdb) p list_length(Vwindow_list)
>>  > $2 = 2
>>
>> and this
>>
>>  > (gdb) xlist
>>  > $13 = 0x1a
>>  > Lisp_Int0
>>  > $14 = 6
>>
>> together indicate that Vwindow_list spontaneously shrinks from 6 to 2
>> elements (which is "impossible" as we know already).  Attaching the next
>> patch which should catch this situation automatically.  It will still be
>> of no help because we won't catch the one that apparently clobbers that
>> list but hopefully more useful than the previous diff.
>
> Triggered.  Here's the backtrace:

[...]

And, to be clear:

(gdb) up
#2  0x000055555564b3ea in window_list () at ../../master/src/window.c:2585
2585        eassert (window_list_length == list_length (Vwindow_list));
(gdb) p window_list_length
$1 = 6
(gdb) p list_length(Vwindow_list)
$2 = 2

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Michael Welsh Duggan
(mwd@cert.org)