Subject: bug#47244: 28.0.50; SIGSEGV in long-runnning Emacs

From: Michael Welsh Duggan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:54:20 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Michael Welsh Duggan <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:27:13 -0400
>> 
>> (gdb) p current_buffer->text->beg
>> $7 = (unsigned char *) 0x0
>
> That explains the crash.  What does this display:
>
>   (gdb) source /path/to/emacs/src/.gdbinit
>   (gdb) p current_buffer->name_
>   (gdb) xstring
>
> And, given the name of the buffer this will display, what can you tell
> about that buffer?

(gdb) p current_buffer->name_
$8 = XIL(0)
(gdb) xstring
$9 = (struct Lisp_String *) 0x0
"DEAD"

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Michael Welsh Duggan
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