[Bug: 21.4.22] Crash while idle

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 06/21/10 08:16 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Rodney Sparapani writes:
>
>   >  I've been having this problem for a while, but usually it did not
>   >  produce a core file, but today I got lucky :o)
>
> Thank you for the backtrace.
>
> Do you know what signal caused the crash?
>    
No, it usually happens when XEmacs is idling.  In this case, I
just selected a GNOME window and it went down.  I don't think
GNOME would have sent it a signal, but I'm guessing.
>   >  Loaded symbols for /lib/libthread.so.1
>   >  #0  0x080b54b1 in Fbyte_code (instructions=149954084,
>   >  constants=151679680, stack_depth=9) at bytecode.c:2403
>   >  2403      program = alloca_array (Opbyte, 1 + 2 * XSTRING_LENGTH
>   >  (instructions));
>
> alloca is a hairy, extremely system-dependent function.  It
> manipulates the C stack.  It could easily be an OS or compiler bug.
> (Not to say that it isn't an XEmacs bug, but this one may be hard to
> track down and fix.)
>
>   >     Relocating allocator for buffers:  yes
>   >     GNU version of malloc:             yes
>
> This unfortunately doesn't tell me which alloca was used, and there
> may be several possibilities (including an XEmacs hack which provides
> alloca on machines that don't have it).  Can you send us the
> config.log for this build?
>    
I'll try attaching it to this email.

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