Re: [AUCTeX] Text corruption

[Axel E. Retif]

David,


On 12/16/2012 02:44 PM, David Kastrup wrote:

> Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> > That's a really strange problem.  It doesn't sound like an Emacs or
> > AUCTeX problem but more like a colleague playing a trick on you.
>
> More like the computer playing a trick on him.  i (0x69) and m (0x6d)
> differ by a single bit, bit 2.  Time to run some memory checker.

I ran memtester for about an hour, without any problem.


> The most reliable memory check I know is compiling the Linux kernel.  I
> had computers running a standard memory checker for a whole night, but
> not surviving an hour of kernel compilation (gcc bombs out with
> segmentation fault astonishingly reliably with flaky memory).  Of
> course, keeping today's computers busy for hours is no longer feasible
> with a single kernel compile, but you might put it in a loop.

I'll try to do that and keep you posted.

I'm a copy-editor/typesetter, that is, the books I work on are not my 
own, so you and Tassilo can understand why this is so important to me 
---I simply can't introduce typos on other people's work.


Thank you very much.

Axel