[Bug: 21.5-b28] Crash while searching

[Vin Shelton]

On Feb 20, 2008 7:31 AM, Vin Shelton <acs at alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2008 5:33 AM, Pete Forman <pete.forman at westerngeco.com> wrote:
> > "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
>
> Yes, at least according to the ChangeLog.  I have not yet verified
> your test case.

Pete -

After drinking some coffee and installing the python-modes package, I
can verify that your recipe used to crash and as of 2008-01-02 it no
longer does, so I'm fairly certain the 2008-01-24 kit should work for
you.

  - Vin