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26.0.50; Crash on OS X

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26038-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26038: 26.0.50; Crash on OS X
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:38:36 +0100

Hi Ivan,

sorry, I forgot to update this bug. I've reverted the changes that
originally caused this, so hopefully the problem won't repeat and I'll
close this bug report.

Thanks.

Ivan Andrus <darthandrus <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks for the reply.  Perhaps unfortunately, I started having issues
> with other programs (including the terminal program which had lldb
> running), so it might have been that my system was just unstable.
>
> Anyway, I'll try the patch.  And thanks for working on this!
>
> -Ivan
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:42:17AM -0700, Ivan Andrus wrote:
>>> I switched out of Emacs to check my email and when I came back it had
>>> crashed.  I had been byte-compiling some files and doing random work
>>> before that, but everything seemed to work okay.  I just built from source
>>> yesterday so my uptime wasn't very high.
>>
>> I think this is because of the changes to event handling that I’ve
>> made recently to solve the concurrency issues. Unfortunately I don’t
>> know how we could go about debugging it properly since the crash
>> happens deep inside Cocoa libraries.
>>
>> I’ve attached a patch which I hope might prevent the crash, though. Can
>> you give it a go and see if the crash repeats, please?
>>
>> The alternative is to revert commits a65236214d and 3bd2e9e975, which
>> should take you back to the previous code.
>>
>>> I build with a few patches, though only elisp changes with the
>>> exception of the patch from bug 16579 which should only affect
>>> proced which I haven't at all in this instance.
>>
>> According to https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16579
>> that patch was committed to master some time ago.
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>> --
>> Alan Third
>
>
>
>

-- 
Alan Third

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