[Bug: 21.4.19] xemacs crashes when I start gnus

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "David" == David Carlton <carlton at bactrian.org> writes:

    David>   gnus-byte-compile((lambda (file orig-file)

It's probably a good idea to set gnus-use-byte-compile to nil.

This is probably a bug either in our byte compiler or our bytecode
interpreter, but since none of the experts on that stuff are currently
active, it's unlikely to get fixed in the near future.

    David> The backtrace that GDB prints is as follows:

This is almost useless.  I strongly recommend that you get the XEmacs
debug package from Red Hat (sorry, I don't have an URL offhand), which
provides the debugging symbols.  That makes it possible to give
annotated backtraces without too much effort on your part.

The assert in `execute_rare_opcode' is almost certainly the default in
a switch, which means that the bytecode being executed is somehow
corrupt.  We've also had some issues with 64-bit platforms in the byte
code.  However, these are getting weeded out mostly in the development
code base rather than in "stable."

I'm not sure what to recommend (other than gnus-use-byte-compile == nil).


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