Gunnar> karlheg(a)bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: Gunnar> One can trigger this crash by evaluating: Gunnar> (function-max-args #'manual-entry) I get following *Backtrace* when evaluating these in order (setq debug-on-error t) (function-max-args #'manual-entry) in (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.1 (patch 12) \"Channel Islands\" [Lucid] (i386-pc-win32) of Sun Aug 06 2000 on ZJ75T" started -vanilla: Signaling: (invalid-function (nil ("c:\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\edit-utils\\man.elc" . 1617))) function-max-args(manual-entry) eval((function-max-args (function manual-entry))) eval-interactive((function-max-args (function manual-entry))) eval-last-sexp(nil) call-interactively(eval-last-sexp) Best regards, Adrian Gunnar> in a vanilla xemacs with any function that is autoloaded. Gunnar> function-max-args performs the autoloading but doesn't actually use Gunnar> the function just loaded, instead it infloops on the autoload Gunnar> definition. Gunnar> This should fix it (21.2 only -- I'll send a 21.1 patch in a separate Gunnar> mail.) Gunnar> 2000-08-06 Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk&gt; Gunnar> * eval.c (function_argcount): If function needs to be autoloaded Gunnar> actually use the loaded definition. Gunnar> --- src/eval.c~ Sun Aug 6 12:32:39 2000 Gunnar> +++ src/eval.c Sun Aug 6 20:58:36 2000 Gunnar> ＠＠ -3651,6 +3651,7 ＠＠ Gunnar> else if (EQ (funcar, Qautoload)) Gunnar> { Gunnar> do_autoload (function, orig_function); Gunnar> + function = orig_function; Gunnar> goto retry; Gunnar> } Gunnar> else if (EQ (funcar, Qlambda))