Need some bug/version info

Vin Shelton acs at xemacs.org
Fri Feb 4 06:48:56 EST 2005


David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:

> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
>
>>>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>     David> As far as I can see, the main symptom would be random
>>     David> core dumps.  I don't think that people will assign the
>>     David> blame to AUCTeX for core dumps.
>>
>> If they only occur (in their experience) while using AUCTeX they
>> will.  That's been my experience, anyway.
>
> The release notes will carry prominent warnings.  We'll see whether
> this is enough.  It will probably also depend on how far-spread
> XEmacs-21.4.16 will turn out to be in the long run.
>
>> I think that should normally be a sufficient condition for you to do
>> it, but why are you making it necessary?  AUCTeX is simply the
>> highest-risk application (I am not seeing crash reports about
>> 21.4.16, except from you),
>
> Vin reported otherwise.

Just to set the record straight, what I meant was, that infloops in
gnus were the #1 symptom of this bug.  If you're only counting
crashes, I have no idea what the leading innocent bystander was.

  - Vin




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