SEGV in allocate_string

[Reiner Steib]

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.2.1)
 of 2004-10-14 on lumberjack
configured using `configure '--prefix=/import/xtra/emacs/HEAD' '--with-gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.ISO_8859-1
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: POSIX
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
allocate_string () at alloc.c:1584
1584      string_free_list = NEXT_FREE_LISP_STRING (s);
(gdb) bt
#0  allocate_string () at alloc.c:1584
#1  0x081715a8 in make_uninit_multibyte_string (nchars=12, nbytes=12) at 
alloc.c:2142
#2  0x08171580 in make_uninit_string (length=12) at alloc.c:2123
#3  0x0818d9a7 in concat (nargs=2, args=0xbfffd754, target_type=Lisp_String, 
last_special=0) at fns.c:659
#4  0x0818ce66 in Fconcat (nargs=2, args=0xbfffd754) at fns.c:444
#5  0x081b3817 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=144149425, vector=80, 
maxdepth=-1073752236) at bytecode.c:1057
#6  0x08188d8c in funcall_lambda (fun=64, nargs=1, arg_vector=0xbfffd874) at 
eval.c:2923
#7  0x08188837 in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0xbfffd870) at eval.c:2793
#8  0x081b3899 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=137971177, vector=1, 
maxdepth=-1073751952) at bytecode.c:686
#9  0x08187f35 in Feval (form=137334424) at eval.c:2101
#10 0x08186b87 in Fcondition_case (args=137607321) at eval.c:1293
#11 0x081b3070 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=137971177, vector=143, 
maxdepth=-1073751328) at bytecode.c:864
#12 0x08188d8c in funcall_lambda (fun=72, nargs=1, arg_vector=0xbfffdc14) at 
eval.c:2923
#13 0x08188837 in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0xbfffdc10) at eval.c:2793
#14 0x081b3899 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=137855185, vector=1, 
maxdepth=-1073751024) at bytecode.c:686
#15 0x08188d8c in funcall_lambda (fun=24, nargs=1, arg_vector=0xbfffdd54) at 
eval.c:2923
#16 0x08188837 in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0xbfffdd50) at eval.c:2793
#17 0x081843c2 in Fcall_interactively (function=144360881, 
record_flag=17200915, keys=154547332) at callint.c:863
#18 0x0812fe8d in Fcommand_execute (cmd=144360881, record_flag=137607321, 
keys=137607321, special=12)
    at keyboard.c:9724
#19 0x081245a3 in command_loop_1 () at keyboard.c:1779
#20 0x08186c9d in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x81241b0 <command_loop_1>, 
handlers=137668289, 
    hfun=0x8123cb0 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1346
#21 0x08123fdb in command_loop_2 () at keyboard.c:1309
#22 0x081867da in internal_catch (tag=0, func=0x8123fc0 <command_loop_2>, 
arg=137607321) at eval.c:1107
#23 0x08123f97 in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1288
#24 0x081239e2 in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:981
#25 0x08123b2f in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1042
#26 0x08122283 in main (argc=9, argv=0xbfffe514) at emacs.c:1687
#27 0x4064c8ae in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) xbacktrace 
"gnus-find-method-for-group"
"byte-code"
"gnus-get-unread-articles"
"gnus-group-get-new-news"
"call-interactively"
(gdb) 
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Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with debugging C programs.  Although I
have read etc/DEBUG, I'm not sure what to do next.  Unless someone can
tell me what to type at the gdb prompt, I'm afraid I cannot give more
useful information.

Bye, Reiner.
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