[debbugs-tracker] bug#18516: closed (24.4.50; EMACS crashes when I try to open Elisp manual)

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> 24.4.50; EMACS crashes when I try to open Elisp manual
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> Sun, 21 Sep 2014 10:55:48 +0200
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> The crash does not happen with the -Q option, only with my init
> file. The recipe to make the crash is
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> C-h
> i
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> Elisp
> RET
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> Actually, it is not the Elisp manual as such that is problematic, but
> any manual bundled with Emacs causes the crash, while other manuals are
> OK. I suspect that the difference is because of the gzipping of these
> bundled manual.
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> I tried to start Emacs from gdb (the latter started from an MSYS
> console) but then I got that xbacktrace is not supported. And the crash
> happened earlier, just with `C-h i'.
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> I think I should try with a simpler init file --- to find the smallest
> thing causing the crash, but I have not yet done this investigation.
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> In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
>  of 2014-09-19 on CHOUNEK
> Repository revision: 117905 address@hidden
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> Configured using:
>  `configure --prefix=c:/Programme/GNU/Emacs --without-jpeg
>  --without-tiff --without-gif --without-png 'CPPFLAGS= -DFOR_MSW=1 -I
>  C:/Programme/GNU/installation/emacs-install/libXpm-3.5.8/include -I
>  C:/Programme/GNU/installation/emacs-install/libXpm-3.5.8/src -L
>  c:/Programme/GNU/installation/emacs-install/libXpm-3.5.8/src'
>  CPP=/mingw/bin/cpp.exe
>  PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/mingw/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'
>
> Configured features:
> XPM SOUND NOTIFY ACL ZLIB
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $EMACSPATH: 
> c:\Programme\NGNU\CVS;C:\Programme\GNU\GnuPG;c:\Programme\apache-ant-1.8.0\bin;c:\msys\1.0\bin;c:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin;
>   value of $LANG: FRA
>   locale-coding-system: cp1252
>
> Major mode: Dired by name
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   recentf-mode: t
>   mail-abbrevs-mode: t
>   iswitchb-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   buffer-read-only: t
>   line-number-mode: t
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> Recent input:
> e f v a r SPC c o l ) , SPC e t SPC d e SPC p a s s 
> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
> <backspace> ' a s s o c i e r SPC d y n a m i q u e 
> m e n t r <backspace> SPC l e s SPC s y m b o l SPC 
> r o w SPC e t SPC c o l SPC à SPC l e u r SPC a v e 
> c <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> v 
> a l e u r SPC p o u r SPC l ' a f f i c h i e r <backspace> 
> <backspace> <backspace> e r SPC ( <left> <left> <backspace> 
> <backspace> a g f <backspace> e <end> s e s - p r i 
> n c <backspace> t - c e l l ) <left> . . . <end> . 
> SPC E s t r - <backspace> <backspace> - c e SPC q u 
> e SPC t u SPC e r e <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
> t e r o u <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
> r o u v e SPC <backspace> s SPC q u e SPC c ' e s t 
> SPC u n e SPC b o n n e SPC i d é e . <return> <return> 
> SPC SPC SPC V i n c e n t . C-c C-s y C-x d <M-backspace> 
> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> P r o <tab> 
> m <tab> g n <tab> e m <tab> <return> <down> <down> 
> i <down> <down> <down> <down> i <down> <down> <down> 
> <down> <down> <down> <next> C-s e l i s <down> <up> 
> <return> C-x k <return> M-x r e p o r t - b u <tab> 
> <tab> e m <tab> <tab> <return>
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> Recent messages:
> Sending email 
> Sending email done
> 250 2.0.0 tkfG1o00K2maGi203kfHFS mail accepted for delivery
> 221 2.0.0 mwinf5d32 ME closing connection
> Sending...done
> Deleting article d:/msys/1.0/home/Vincent/News/drafts/drafts/175 in drafts...
> Mark set [2 times]
> Mark saved where search started
> uncompressing elisp.info.gz...done
> Making completion list...
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> Load-path shadows:
> d:/msys/1.0/home/Vincent/.emacs.d/etc/custom hides 
> c:/Programme/GNU/Emacs/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/custom
> c:/Programme/GNU/Emacs/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/loaddefs hides 
> c:/Programme/GNU/installation/cedet-install/cedet/lisp/cedet/loaddefs
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> Features:
> (shadow warnings emacsbug jka-compr misearch multi-isearch dired-aux
> mailalias smtpmail qp mail-extr sort gnus-bcklg gnus-cite bbdb-message
> sendmail nnir gnus-draft gnus-ml nndraft nnmh nndoc nnfolder bbdb-gnus
> bbdb-mua bbdb-com crm network-stream auth-source starttls gnus-agent
> gnus-srvr gnus-score score-mode nnvirtual gnus-msg gnus-art mm-uu
> mml2015 epg-config mm-view mml-smime smime password-cache dig mailcap
> nntp gnus-cache gnus-sum gnus-group gnus-undo gnus-start gnus-cloud
> nnimap nnmail mail-source tls utf7 netrc nnoo parse-time gnus-spec
> gnus-int gnus-range message dired-x dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec
> mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045
> ietf-drums gmm-utils mailheader gnus-win gnus gnus-ems nnheader
> gnus-util mail-utils mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr hl-line accents-ascii
> eieio byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv eieio-core tex-mik
> preview-latex tex-site auto-loads calc-mathfloat calc-math edmacro
> kmacro w32utils java-init cl-macs cl gv bsh-init recentf tree-widget
> wid-edit cl-loaddefs cl-lib generic-x cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess cc-menus
> cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs template mailabbrev
> iswitchb cus-start cus-load bbdb easymenu bbdb-site timezone
> bbdb-loaddefs calc-misc calc-arith calc-ext calc calc-loaddefs calc-macs
> skeleton load-path-to-cedet-svn time-date tooltip electric uniquify
> ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp
> w32-common-fns disp-table w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image
> regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register
> page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock
> font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang
> misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew
> greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
> case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice
> loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay
> sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
> hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process w32notify w32
> multi-tty emacs)
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> Memory information:
> ((conses 8 307965 27511)
>  (symbols 24 42644 0)
>  (miscs 20 1204 784)
>  (strings 16 69259 8672)
>  (string-bytes 1 2999325)
>  (vectors 8 33295)
>  (vector-slots 4 1369977 56986)
>  (floats 8 261 542)
>  (intervals 28 2243 1407)
>  (buffers 516 28))
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> Re: bug#18516: Acknowledgement (24.4.50; EMACS crashes when I try to open Elisp manual)
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> Date: 
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> Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:39:36 +0300
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> > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:21:57 +0400
> > From: Dmitry Antipov <address@hidden>
> > CC: address@hidden, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
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> > On 09/22/2014 08:21 AM, Vincent Belaïche wrote:
> > 
> > > Here is attached the log of the gdb sessione encoded in raw-text coding
> > > system, please feel free to ask me for any further step --- like setting
> > > break points, dumping some variable contents, and so on --- if it can
> > > help locate the problem.
> > 
> > Crash in Fexpand_file_name?  Hm...there was some changes in r11780[123]
> > and r117806.  Can you try to revert to r117800 and reproduce this crash?
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> This was introduced in r117806 (alloca doesn't like negative arguments).
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> Fixed in trunk revision 117918.
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