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Re: vm crashes emacs
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Re: vm crashes emacs |
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27 Dec 2001 22:17:18 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.50 |
> It turns out that that patch in bytecode.c is a mistake. When I first
> try to test your file, I made a mistake in how to extract it from your
> message, with the result that every byte in the range 0200-0377 got
> converted to Emacs internal representation. This led to the
> bugs I saw, and I "fixed" this problem with the change I made.
>
> But later I realized that I was not testing the same file that you
> were testing, and fixed the file. The change is wrong, as Handa
> explained, and I have taken it out.
>
> I don't observe any problem when I try the corrected test file with
> that mistaken patch removed. In other words, it is not clear that
> this byte code is necessarily invalid after all.
>
> Unfortunately, this means I have no idea how to proceed. Can you
> debug it at all? Can anyone else reproduce the problem and debug it
> at all?
try perhaps following the instructions for reproducing this problem
using the tar file I sent in a later bug report this morning, based on
a byte code produced by emacs 21.1. Eli