Re: Bug triggered by compilation-mode + font-lock, XEmacs 21.4.11.

Aidan> About fifteen lines into it, a really long mkdep output Aidan> line gets printed to the compilation buffer. XEmacs Aidan> crashes. Aidan> re-search-forward("^[^:\n]+-[a-zA-Z][^:\n]+$" 25533 t) cd $srcdir/src rm regex.o # grep Makefile for 'CFLAGS=' make CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DREGEX_MALLOC" # if you are running installed: cd .. make install # or just copy the executable and the dumpfile (if --pdump enabled) to # the appropriate bin directory, and re-symlink as appropriate) Or just upgrade to 21.4.15: 2003-08-15 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.in (regex_malloc): New option. configure.usage (--use-regex-malloc): Document it. The default (unless I screwed up) is --use-regex-malloc=yes, and you use --use-regex-malloc=no to squeeze maximum performance out of the regex code. You can still run into problems, maybe even crash, but now you're limited by available heap, not by available stack. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.