Re: [Bug: 21.4.14] xemacs crashes with gnus and byte-compiled trivial-cite
>>>> "SY" == Steve Youngs
<sryoungs(a)bigpond.net.au> writes:
SY> * Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> (Well, actually, Gnus is implicated in all currently known
> crashes except for a few caused by Motif
SY> That seems a little harsh.
Well, of course no Lisp program can be blamed for a crash. So there's
surely a bug in the C code.
SY> Is it true? Can you back that statement up? Or is it just
SY> that a lot of bugs you've come across lately seam to have been
SY> related to Gnus?
It's the latter (I haven't personally seen many crashes since
November, until this morning when I got an AUCTeX-related crash, but
my past crashes and the reports on xemacs-beta typically involve
Gnus).
My point isn't that Gnus is evil (or, if it is, it's my kind of evil),
it's that you need something that exercises XEmacs severely to get it
to crash, but this also means it's hard to debug. I mean, does
-vanilla have any meaning when Gnus is loaded? ;-)
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