Re: [COMMIT] Don't blow the stack when printing recursive spec-lists, print_specifier()
Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí na Samhain, scríobh Raymond Toy:
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Aidan Kehoe
<kehoea(a)parhasard.net> wrote:
> Ar an triú lá déag de mí na Samhain, scríobh Raymond Toy:
>
> > Run xemacs -vanilla and using the menu, select
> > Options->Customize->Emacs->Emacs. This crashes xemacs because of
> default
> > widget set (no athena installed). gdb backtrace appended below.
>
> Thanks, Raymond!
>
> I can’t reproduce, probably because I do have the Athena widgets
> installed and when I try to lead the configure script away from them it
> picks up Motif, but it’s clear enough that we shouldn’t crash when
> printing a recursive specifier.
>
I tested this fix on the machine where this crash was done. No more
crash! And the customize buffer shows up as expected.
However, I do get warnings like this [extensive *Message-Log* spam
> omitted]:
https://bitbucket.org/xemacs/xemacs/commits/da34f59 of the 17th should have
addressed that (it’s a longstanding thing that should have been taken
seriously as a bug before); thanks for the report.
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