>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
Stephen> Tell you what. I'll
make Paul's change so that XEmacs
Stephen> bitches no matter what, but without inflooping (I
Stephen> assume). And I'll add Ben's assert and you can build an
Stephen> XEmacs with --debug=yes. That will give Ben and Paul the
Stephen> maximum amount of debug information to work with, since
Stephen> you seem to be hitting this every few hours.
Stephen> I still think this is fairly safe (depends on whether the
Stephen> user considers an infloop and crash now or possible
Stephen> subtle corruption later worse), but it's not clear that
Stephen> you personally want to do --debug=yes for this problem.
I am willing to build with --debug=yes.
Stephen> The reason is that I took a closer look at Ben's patch
Stephen> and realized that Ben has already identified a couple of
Stephen> places where this problem might arise. So you may just
Stephen> be letting yourself in for asserts he already knows
Stephen> about. I'm not going to apply the rest of the patch
Stephen> until there's been some experience with it in 21.5,
Stephen> unless Ben really advocates it.
I have been using latest CVS 21.5 exclusively until a few days ago
when 21.4.4 candidate 1/2 came along.
I haven't had regular crashes there.
Adrian
Stephen> Ben?
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