Re: crash of xemacd

Paolo> it is the first time in many years that I have a crash on Paolo> xemacs. Thanks for the report. Paolo> In XEmacs 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" The XEmacs 21.1 codebase is no longer maintained. It's possible it was fixed by 21.1.14, the latest release in that branch. However, if you are going to update, I recommend updating to the 21.4 branch (now at 21.4.12). It sounds like 21.1 has been very stable for you, and if you're not greatly worried about this crash recurring, there is no need to update. We will be making efforts to maintain full backward compatibility for almost all Lisp packages (the exceptions are a couple of Mule packages that are not supported for 21.1 anyway) for a few more months, and I expect compatibility to degrade gracefully after that. We will, of course, continue to try to address compatibility issues after that; the difference is that current policy is to defer or change new features to maintain compatibility. Later we will decide each such case on the merits, and probably tend to favor features when push comes to shove. Paolo> I was just moving the cursor when xemacs crashed Urk. From your back trace it looks like garbage collection bug. Hard to fix except sort of accidentally. Paolo> If you want I can mail also the core file (5MB). No thanks, unless you can mail the machine it was generated by, too. :-) Core files without debug symbols are basically useless. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.