[Bug: 21.5-b28] Crash while searching

[Vin Shelton]

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.

  - Vin