Re: Ediff frequently crashes emacs.

[Kim F. Storm]

Peter Seibel <address@hidden> writes:

> #0  Fcons (car=137325333, cdr=163656285) at alloc.c:2374

I'm suspecting a stray buffer overrun somewhere ...  it's just
so hard to find.  Do you still have the crashed emacs in gdb ?


What does the following yield?

p car
xtype

p cdr 
xtype

> #1  0x0805b161 in store_in_alist (alistptr=0xbfffddbc, prop=137433329, 
>     val=158828941) at frame.c:1934

up 1

p prop
xtype
xsymbol

p val
xtype

p *alistptr
pr



Could you try to change this line in lisp.h to possibly trigger the
bug faster:


#if 0
/* Define this temporarily to hunt a bug.  If defined, the size of

to

#if 1
/* Define this temporarily to hunt a bug.  If defined, the size of

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