Re: xemacs 21.4 : EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.

William Hamish Bell writes: > Using the latest version of the macports tree on OSX 10.6.8, xemacs > 21.4 is crashing with a EXC_BAD_ACCESS error: As far as I can tell this is a bug in X, probably an undocumented assumption about valid arguments that XEmacs violates. We've been unable to diagnose (for many years now). > (gdb) where > #0 0x000000010057056d in XDrawLine () > #1 0x000000010015bfb4 in GaugeExpose () (I hate distributions that strip their binaries.) I don't recall actually seeing XDrawLine in the backtrace before, so this may improve localization of the bug in GaugeExpose. The workaround is to customize `progress-feedback-use-echo-area' to t.