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23.0.60; Emacs goes in a malloc loop

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Message #10 received at 1666 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Ashish Shukla <wahjava <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 1666 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Emacs goes in a malloc loop
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:00:09 -0500

> Following is the piece of Emacs Lisp code, which I tried to execute in
> Emacs's *scratch* buffer to close all buffers except the buffer named
> "buffer-name".
>
> ,----
> | (dolist (buffer (buffer-list))
> |         (unless (string-match "buffer-name" (buffer buffer))
> |                 (kill-buffer buffer)))
> `----
>
> Executing above Emacs Lisp code increases CPU usage and Emacs keeps on
> allocating memory. This bug is reproducible always.


I assume that by

  (string-match "buffer-name" (buffer buffer))

you mean

  (string-match "buffer-name" (buffer-name buffer))

However, I cannot reproduce this bug on 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X
toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars), or on 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
Version 2.14.4).

Do you see this bug when Emacs is compiled with GTK support?  Try also
compiling without some of the other configuration flags---do they make a
difference?

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