Re: erroneous auto-save-list file

[Richard Stallman]

      When
    the initial abort occurred, resulting in the erroneous auto-save-list
    file, Emacs was not running under gdb, but, as I wrote in my bug report
    about the abort, even reproducing it under gdb yielded no backtrace, why
    I don't know.

That could be a serious problem in GDB.  It would be good to talk
with GDB developers about how to investigate it.  Since the bug's
cause is known, they could focus on figuring out why GDB fails
to give a backtrace.