[Bug: 21.5-b27] crash in kill ()

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Knauel <knauel at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

    Eric> This kind of crash occurs quite frequently when I'm replying
    Eric> to a mail in Gnus 5.10.7 with `F'.  In this situation I
    Eric> tried to forward a mail with `S o m'.  I'm building XEmacs
    Eric> from the CVS trunk, last updated today.

Your C backtrace makes no sense at all; it claims that XIM functions
are defined in the XEmacs sources.  Can you try running under gdb to
see if you can get a better backtrace?  If possible, setting a
breakpoint on Fget_buffer_window, but I suspect that could be really
painful to get to the point of the crash.

You're using the same GCC (build 1671 vs. 1666) as me, the identical
kernel, I assume you're running a pretty vanilla "Panther" system?  A
G4 system or a G5 system?

What X11 libraries are you using?  Apple's?  (I use X.org.)  What Xft
libraries?

The main relevant difference seems to be that I use
--enable-union-type and you don't.  You could try compiling with that
switch and see if you get better stability.  (Despite Ben's
deprecation of --with-union-type for other platforms, there have been
reports that it gives greater stability on Macs.)

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