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25.1; emacs 25.1 crashes while I am killing a bunch of lines

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From: "ISHIKAWA,chiaki" <ishikawa <at> yk.rim.or.jp>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 26573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26573: 25.1; emacs 25.1 crashes while I am killing a bunch of lines
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 13:26:58 +0900

On 2017/06/25 7:45, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> "ISHIKAWA,chiaki" <ishikawa <at> yk.rim.or.jp> writes:
> 
>> Yes, it is too bad that emacs has become a little unstable.
>> Maybe the distributed souce code management system may have something
>> to do with it. Before, developers were very careful and use only a
>> single master repository thus messing it up would have been a cardinal
>> sin, but
>> nowadays, people can create various branches and merge them (at least
>> so that it builds/compiles). BUT, the runtime behavior may suffer.
>> Just my guess.
> 
> These problems with the allocater have actually been triggered by a
> glibc change.  The malloc hooks were dropped which forces Emacs to use a
> different configuration that had not been widely tested for a long time,
> so meanwhile bugs had crept in.
> 

So a different reason. I came to my pet conclusion too fast.

I suspect that "configure" is a very difficult code to write correctly.

Again, thank you for your e-mails.

Emacs has been maintained in good condition by people like you.

So thank you very much!

Chiaki

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