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

[Richard Hubbell]

On Sun,  04  Feb  2007  10:07:51  -0800
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> penned
beautifully:

> Richard Hubbell writes:
> 
>  > (no debugging symbols found)
> 
> *sigh*
> 
>  > 0x081c7c30 in x_handle_selection_clear ()
> 
> If your distro provides a corresponding debug
package for the xemacs
> binary, it would help if you could install it and
get file name and
> line number information.  Assuming we can reproduce
it, we can get
> that easily enough, but there's no guarantee.

I couldn't find that package.   Don't think one exists
or I was looking for it using the wrong name.


> 
>  > XEmacs 21.4.19 "Constant Variable" configured for
>  > `i386-debian-linux'.
> 
> Aidan fixed (or at least diagnosed) a bug with
symptoms something like
> this; I think there is a fix in 21.4.20.  I'll check
later.


Any luck looking at 21.4.20?

> 
>  > /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.  You really
want to avoid having
> GNU-compiled byte code anywhere near XEmacs.
> 
> (This doesn't have anything to do with the crash
you're seeing, I
> believe.)

Ok, good to know. I don't know anything about xemacs
on debian.

Thanks.

> 
> 
> 



 
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