Re: [Bug: 21.5-b32] assertion failed, file alloc.c, line 402, !regex_malloc_disallowed

"Henry S. Thompson" <ht(a)inf.ed.ac.uk&gt; writes: First note that as per the body of this message, this is b32, not b29, and in fact is up-to-date wrt mercurial: changeset: 5678:b0d40183ac79 tag: tip user: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; date: Sun Aug 12 11:32:36 2012 +0100 I'm _way_ out of my depth here, but it's Friday and displacement activity is the order of the afternoon, so I took the backtrace at face value, read all the comments at the beginning of regex.c, and concluded there is a real bug. The attached patch has allowed me to run for an hour w/o a crash, so I offer it to you for your consideration. Here are what I take to be the key parts of the backtrace: I.e., in some obscure circumstances, ISALPHA (and friends) can cause a malloc. Sigh. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht(a)inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta