Re: Ediff frequently crashes emacs.

[Peter Seibel]

Peter Seibel <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
>> Peter Seibel <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Does the following patch make any difference?
>>>
>>> I'll let you know after I've had a chance to use a patched version for
>>> a while. Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> Did the patch fix the problem?
>
> So it seems, no. I did a CVS update and ./configure; make bootstrap;
> make install. And I just hung again while ediffing two files (none of
> my own elisp involved this time; just regular M-x ediff). Just in case
> I did a make extraclean and then another CVS update and am now in the
> process of ./configure; make bootstrap after making sure that my
> sources in fact had the BLOCK_INPUT foo in callproc.c which they do.

The latest build, after make extraclean, etc. also exhibits the
freezing while using ediff. It hasn't crashed but that has always been
much rarer than freezing.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      address@hidden

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