sig segv cut-n-paste issue with 10^6 lines

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Richard Hubbell writes:
>
>  > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
>  > /etc/emacs/site-start
>
> This is suicidal, at least if there are any compiled libraries in
> there.  The GNU Emacs bytecompiler now produces bytecode that is
> capable of crashing XEmacs, at worst.

XEmacs started it...  Of course, ongoing development makes
compatibility to everything else under the sun inconvenient at some
point of time.

> You really want to avoid having GNU-compiled byte code anywhere near
> XEmacs.

And vice versa.  I think the idea of the Debian setup is to provide
the lisp sources for all Emacs offspring in a single directory, and
put the compiled versions into a variant-specific directory somewhere
else in the load-path, differently for each variant.

Consequently,

M-x list-load-path-shadows RET

barfs all over the place on Debian systems.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum