[Bug: 21.4.19] xemacs crashes when I start gnus

[Fabrice Popineau]

* 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.

It is definitely a requirement for XEmacs.

    >> 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 have never managed to get deep into this, but that seems to happen when some
function has been byte-compiled on the fly, and this function is called
from byte-code itself. So the called bytecode is not available at the
time the caller is byte compiled. Especially, I don't know if it is by XEmacs
design.

Fabrice