>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Dane
<joe(a)hotu.com> writes:
Joseph> Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> However, psgml-version tells the upstream version of psgml, not
> the XEmacs package version (we've released many packages of the
> upstream psgml 1.2.2).
>
> Could you look up the XEmacs package version and let us know,
> do a
>
> M-x package-get-info-version RET psgml RET
Joseph> 1.27
Joseph> this is the version contained in the xemacs version
Joseph> *without* the problem. this is what is currently in
Joseph> debian/unstable.
Joseph> if I get some spare time (not too likely at present) I'll
Joseph> try downgrading to the version that was failing, and
Joseph> getting the version info for that. since that version was
Joseph> from debian/woody, I suppose it might affect a fairly
Joseph> large population.
It's an XEmacs core bug. The bytecode interpreter is somehow
corrupting the compiled bytecode in a post-optimizing stage, and the
interpreter "falls off the end" of the code and tries to execute the
string terminating NUL, which is not a legal bytecode.
Film at 11 ... maybe. I don't understand this stuff :-/ Maybe you'll
hear screams for help instead....
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