>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
>>>> "APA" == Adrian Aichner
<Adrian.Aichner(a)t-online.de> writes:
APA> would following patch fix
this problem for 21.4.4 candidate 2
APA> also?
Stephen> It will make the infloop and crash go away; it will
Stephen> probably leave you with a unstable XEmacs. Ben sez:
Stephen> it was never safe; i just added the printf recently
Stephen> to flush out the problem.
Stephen> patch forthcoming.
Stephen> and later (along with the patch)
Stephen> the gc-in-window-procedure fix is probably a serious
Stephen> bug too, but it less obviously leads to crashes. it
Stephen> probably leads to some subtle weird problems, but you
Stephen> can pass on it if you want.
Stephen> So I did pass (ie, postpone), without looking closely at
Stephen> that point.
I did look at old threads about this yesterday, but I wasn't able to
determine whether a good fix for this exists.
What should be done?
Stephen> Um, Ben, as I understand it asserts get defined away to
Stephen> "DO_NOTHING;" in a --debug=no XEmacs. Is assert the
That's correct.
Stephen> right thing to do here?
Stephen> I have a patch for the IPv6 stupidity in hand, and a
Stephen> limited amount of time to fix any showstoppers before I
Stephen> leave on vacation. So I'm going to roll out 21.4.4
Have a good one!
Stephen> within a few hours.
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