21.1 crash in eval.c: 1877 (abort)

This has happened twice now, in the following fashion: after several days of a session, mostly using VM, I click on the get mail button for some folder. The .crashbox gets filled, and then XEmacs crashes. No lisp backtrace, no C backtrace (that may be my fault; the first time I didn't have core dumps enabled, the second I may have run out of space for the core file). It aborts in eval.c at line 1877, which is a check for in redisplay or in GC. I don't notice a GC happening, but it goes down really fast so I may have missed it. Probably last CVS update was Aug 23. uname -a: Linux turnbull 2.2.14 #1 Mon Apr 3 17:04:34 JST 2000 i586 unknown /coda/Projects/XEmacs/21.1-HEAD/configure '--srcdir' '/coda/Projects/XEmacs/21.1-HEAD' '--with-mule' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-xfs' '--prefix=/playpen/gnu' '--exec-prefix=/playpen/gnu/plat' XEmacs 21.1.12 "Channel Islands" configured for `i586-pc-linux'. Where should the build process find the source code? /coda/Projects/XEmacs/21.1-HEAD What installation prefix should install use? /playpen/gnu What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/linux.h' and `m/intel386.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.) Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11R6/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for TIFF image handling. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Compiling in native sound support. Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in Mule (multi-lingual) support. Compiling in XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method) support. Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. Using XFontSet to provide bilingual menubar. Compiling in support for Canna on Mule. Compiling in support for proper session-management. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Compiling in DLL support. movemail will use "dot-locking" for locking mail spool files. Using Lisp_Objects with minimal tagbits. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."