Re: vm crashes emacs

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> It turns out that that patch in bytecode.c is a mistake.  When I first
> try to test your file, I made a mistake in how to extract it from your
> message, with the result that every byte in the range 0200-0377 got
> converted to Emacs internal representation.  This led to the
> bugs I saw, and I "fixed" this problem with the change I made.
> 
> But later I realized that I was not testing the same file that you
> were testing, and fixed the file.  The change is wrong, as Handa
> explained, and I have taken it out.
> 
> I don't observe any problem when I try the corrected test file with
> that mistaken patch removed.  In other words, it is not clear that
> this byte code is necessarily invalid after all.
> 
> Unfortunately, this means I have no idea how to proceed.  Can you
> debug it at all?  Can anyone else reproduce the problem and debug it
> at all?

try perhaps following the instructions for reproducing this problem
using the tar file I sent in a later bug report this morning, based on
a byte code produced by emacs 21.1.   Eli