Re: [Bug: 21.5-b34] Customize group whitespace crashes xemacs

Stephen> Raymond Toy writes: Stephen> That's the group "whitespace", not an ASCII SPC character or the like, Stephen> right? I can't get this to crash. Yes, it's "whitespace", not the space character. And it crashes for any group that I've tried. Stephen> Probably. Could you reproduce the crash, and then go to the frame Stephen> corresponding to: Stephen> and print out the arguments to Fspecifier_specs using "pobj" from Stephen> .gdbinit? If possible, back up the stack and see if you can get a (gdb) fr 1019 #1019 0x000000000065bec6 in Fspecifier_specs (specifier=22642608, locale=10583544, tag_set=10676280, exact_p=10676280) at /usr/local/google/home/rtoy/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/specifier.c:2456 2456 RETURN_UNGCPRO (gdb) pobj specifier $3 = (Lisp_Specifier *) 0x1597fb0 $4 = {header = {lheader = {type = 36, mark = 0, c_readonly = 0, lisp_readonly = 0, free = 0, uid = 1863}, next = 0x1597f50}, methods = 0xe188c0 <dumped_data+4710752>, next_specifier = 22879600, global_specs = 20920816, device_specs = 10676280, frame_specs = 10676280, window_specs = 22645776, buffer_specs = 10676280, caching = 0x0, magic_parent = 10676280, fallback = 20865512, data = {{...}}} (gdb) pobj locale $5 = (Lisp_Symbol *) 0xa17df8 <dumped_data+513688> $6 = {u = {...}, next = 0x0, name = 13520544, value = 10091432, function = 10091432, plist = 10676280} Symbol name: global (gdb) pobj tag_set $7 = (Lisp_Symbol *) 0xa2e838 <dumped_data+606424> $8 = {u = {...}, next = 0x0, name = 13608576, value = 10676280, function = 10091432, plist = 10676280} Symbol name: nil (gdb) pobj exact_p $9 = (Lisp_Symbol *) 0xa2e838 <dumped_data+606424> $10 = {u = {...}, next = 0x0, name = 13608576, value = 10676280, function = 10091432, plist = 10676280} Symbol name: nil Stephen> name for the specifier variable, but that may not be available. Also Stephen> pobj "obj" from here: (gdb) pobj obj $11 = (Lisp_Glyph *) 0x1597f50 $12 = {header = {lheader = {type = 48, mark = 0, c_readonly = 0, lisp_readonly = 0, free = 0, uid = 345}, next = 0x1197d20}, type = GLYPH_BUFFER, image = 22642608, contrib_p = 22263360, baseline = 22263472, face = 10676280, plist = 10676280, after_change = 0x0, dirty = 0} Stephen> Evidently you've got another problem earlier: Some debugging info about this: (gdb) fr #1051 0x000000000065d32e in specifier_instance_1 (specifier=22642608, matchspec=10091432, domain=23893840, errb=..., no_quit=1, no_fallback=0, depth=3, instantiator=0x0) at /usr/local/google/home/rtoy/src/XEmacs/xemacs/src/specifier.c:2998 2998 CHECK_INSTANCE_ENTRY (Qglobal, matchspec, LOCALE_GLOBAL); (gdb) pobj matchspec $20 = (struct symbol_value_forward *) 0x99fba8 <dumped_data+21576> $21 = {magic = {header = {lheader = {type = 1, mark = 1, c_readonly = 1, lisp_readonly = 1, free = 0, uid = 0}, next = 0x0}, value = 0x0, type = SYMVAL_UNBOUND_MARKER}, magicfun = 0x64726f6365726c26} It seems matchspec is an unbound symbol. Perhaps a GC problem. I should probably also check that my packages are up-to-date and not modified by me locally.... Ray _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta