Re: match-data aborts on mac os x

[David Kastrup]

bryan o'connor <address@hidden> writes:

> [current cvs emacs built for mac os x --with-carbon]
> 
> my emacs process dies with a call to abort().  while it has happened
> in different situations, i can faithfully recreate it using SLIME and
> slime-edit-definition (M-.) three times in a row.
> 
> i think i've isolated the problem to the changes made to match-data in
> v1.181 (6/23/2004) of src/search.c.  i have no problems running from
> sources dated 6/22.
> 
> i will continue to look into it, but i'm hoping that the author of
> the change might have some suggestions.

There have been more changes at 06/29 and 06/30.  Your search.c is
newer than that?

If it is, could you run Emacs under gdb and give a backtrace when it
bugs out?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum