[Bug: 21.4.19] xemacs crashes when I start gnus

[David Carlton]

On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:39:49 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> said:
>>>>>> "David" == David Carlton <carlton at bactrian.org> writes:

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

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

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

> 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.

Great, I've just installed that.

> 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 sure you get asked this a lot, but any idea when the 21.5 series
will be promoted?  I'm afraid I don't follow XEmacs development
closely; looking at the dates over which the various 21.5.X releases
occurred makes me wonder if development has stalled.

David Carlton
carlton at bactrian.org