Re: 21.4.8 garbage collection crash
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
Darryl> OK, I just ran XEmacs 21.4.8 under purify, with
and
Darryl> without Mule, running gnus, and there's nothing that
Darryl> clearly stands out as a culprit for these crashes. This
Darryl> is under HP-UX 11.11i and with Motif, and so it could be a
Darryl> linux or xaw3d problem.
Could be. Are you a regular Gnus user? For mail?
Yes, but only for news -- not for mail. For my testing, I just
brought up gnus, read a few articles (all in English), and quit.
Purified programs run pretty slowly, and so it's a bit difficult to use
a purified XEmacs full-time (normally, it's not too bad, but gnus is
*really* slow with purify).
If not, I suspect
that you're probably not exercising the parts of Gnus that cause us
problems.
Yes, that's the case, as Ben showed.
I don't think I'll apply it, I offer it for testing (if you
want to
try). My guess is that after applying the patch, you'll get the same
result. It's not the res_* things that are getting dereferenced,
_XimMakeImName doesn't have a handle to them, it's something else.
Yes, don't. No one else seems to be seeing the problem, and so
it's best not to fix imaginary bugs. ;-) It may be HP-UX-specific, and
HP-UX generally won't show it because HP-UX programs, by default, allow
NULL-pointer-dereferencing without core-dumping.
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