Improving faces inserting

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Tue, 6 May 2008 09:37:50 -0600, Jerry wrote:

> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Adam Sjøgren <asjo at koldfront.dk> wrote:
>> I have tried to do this now, this is what happened:

> [snip]

>> Does that help?

> Yes, it certainly does.  The watchpoint was never triggered.  Since
> that is the only place where XEmacs had the pointer in question, that
> means that XEmacs did not touch the pointer, which makes the
> possibility of the bug being in XEmacs code even more remote.

Ok.

> It doesn't prove that the bug is not in XEmacs, but it makes it much
> less likely. We could still have some kind of random heap corruption
> bug that touches the memory in question without going through the
> pointer. But that would tend to trigger segfaults, which you aren't
> seeing.

Did you notice that when I just open the png with C-x C-f face.png RET,
I _do_ get a segfault (as reported in <87prrzhdtq.fsf at topper.koldfront.dk>),
or does that not affect the conclusion?


  Best regards,

    Adam

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 "The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity"         Adam Sjøgren
                                                         asjo at koldfront.dk