Re: Ediff frequently crashes emacs.

[Peter Seibel]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> 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.

I understand.

> Do you still have the crashed emacs in gdb ?

Sadly no. I'll try to keep it around next time until I hear back from
you.

> 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

Okay. Will do.

Just as a total stab in the dark, I saw somewhere something about a
bug involving EDIFF (and a crash I think) and something to do with a
custom modeline. I read it and it didn't sound like my problem but
many of my files that I'm ediffing do contain slightly weird looking
modelines, like this:

\modeline{-*- mode: pbs:book;  transient-mark-mode: t -*-}

I mention it only on the off chance that'll spark an aha! momment for
someone.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      address@hidden

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