[Bug: 21.4.22] xemacs segfaults on sendmail-pre-abbrev-expand-hook

[Andreas Goesele]

Hello Aidan!

Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> writes:

>  > When I start XEmacs, go to news (gnus), read some Email and then
>  > write an email, then XEmacs very often segfaults. If I got in some
>  > way around that first Email the problem disappears.
>
> We need a C backtrace from this to be able to even guess what's going
> on.  Next time it happens, send it on, would you? Even the Lisp
> backtrace might help.

I'll do my best.

> That backtrace (typically) isn't from an XEmacs crash, it's from
> XEmacs detecting that there's a problem on the Lisp level and that
> it's giving up, rather than going on and potentially crashing.

Yes. Setting "setq debug-on-error t" prevents XEmacs from crashing (at
least in this case).

Is there a way to get XEmacs crash *and* have a backtrace?

Thanks a lot!

Andreas

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