bug#21428: 24.5; Crash of emacs on OS X, installed via homebrew cask

[Rainer M Krug]

One more thing:

Let me know if I should update from git or stay on the one I am using at
the moment.

Thanks,

Rainer

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
>> Cc: 21428@debbugs.gnu.org,  mituharu+bug-gnu-emacs-mac@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp
>> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:49:10 +0200
>> 
>> >> No, I mean continue running with them set to t, and see if the crashes
>> >> in get_glyph_face_and_encoding are prevented by disabling these
>> >> redisplay optimizations.
>> >
>> > OK - got it. So continue the initial plan.
>> 
>> They are all set to t and I got the following crash:
>
> One more theory eats dust.
>
>> Let me know if you need any further info - I will leave the session
>> open.
>
> Just for the record, please show the usual data about this crash: the
> 'used' count of the frame's face cache and the output of "pgrow"
> command in frame #4.
>
> I guess we are down to using the brute-force approach after all.  I
> will prepare a series of GDB commands that you need to invoke before
> running a new Emacs session under GDB.  The output will be recorded in
> a file, which I will ask you to send me for analysis when a crash
> happens.
>
> To prepare those GDB commands, I need to know how many different
> frames you are normally using.  If only one, the job of preparing
> those commands is easier.  If you normally use more than one frame, do
> the crashes happen when you edit in a particular one of them?  IOW,
> would it be easy for you to switch to the frame where the crashes are
> expected, in order to invoke those GDB commands for that one frame?
>
> Thanks.

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