[Bug: 21.5-b28] Crash while searching

Pete Forman pete.forman at westerngeco.com
Wed Feb 20 05:33:11 EST 2008


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

 > Pete Forman writes:
>
>> Fatal error: assertion failed, file 
 >  > c:\XEmacsBuild\xemacs-21.5-2007-09-26\src\search.c, line 1487, 
 >  > (this_pos) > ((Bytebpos) 1) && this_pos <= ((buf)->text->z + 0)
>
 > This crash was fixed fairly recently, I think:
>
 > 2007-12-05  Stephen J. Turnbull  <stephen at xemacs.org>
>
 > 	* search.c (simple_search): Fix underrun in reverse search.
 > 	(search_buffer): Clarify decision to use boyer_moore or not.
>
 > To avoid it you'll need to update to the tip of the trunk.  We've
 > moved to Mercurial (see http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/hgaccess.html
 > for a brief introduction to usage) for mainline development.  But for
 > a little longer this will be mirrored to the old CVS repository (this
 > patch should be in in there).

I do not have the tools to build on XP myself.  Is that fix
incorporated here?

http://ftp.xemacs.org/windows/testing/XEmacs_Setup_21.5-2008-01-24.exe

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