GNU bug report logs - #22526
25.0.90; Crash starting gnus

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 22:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.90

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
To: 22526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22526: 25.0.90; Crash starting gnus
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 01:18:51 +0000

On Sat 13 Feb 2016, Andy Moreton wrote:

> On 13/02/2016 15:52, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Thanks.  Please run Emacs under GDB, and see if you get any of the
>> debug printouts in mmap_alloc and mmap_realloc when this problem
>> happens (if it happens).
>
> I now have an emacs built from changeset d97f522d3d3f with your patch.
> After a few runs, I now have a gdb session with:
>
> warning: realloc enlarge: VirtualAlloc error 87
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x000000040017209c in make_gap_larger (nbytes_added=0x1000) at
> ../../src/insdel.c:411
> 411       *(Z_ADDR) = 0;
>
> I will keep the gdb session running for further debugging.
>
>     AndyM

More recent runs, built from changeset d4b93e11a519 no longer seem to
reproduce this problem.

    AndyM
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