core dump after 2006-11-06

[stephen at xemacs.org]

Ilya N. Golubev writes:
 > That is, unconverted utf-8 representation remains in internal buffer
 > of coding lstream.  When gc occurs, it tries to finalize that lstream,
 > that tries to complete conversion, that signals the same error.
 > Signalling error while gc is considered assertion failure.

This seems to me to be a bug in the lstream code, not in the coding
code.

We *should* work around it as you describe, but that just means the
lstream bug will be waiting for us in some future time.

 > Still having core file.  Will send additional details on request.

Please always attach at least Installation.  In this case I'm curious
what GC configuration you're using.