GNU bug report logs - #47244
28.0.50; SIGSEGV in long-runnning Emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i <at> md5i.com>

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:40:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 47244 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> cert.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>,
 "47244 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <47244 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#47244: 28.0.50; SIGSEGV in long-runnning Emacs
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:54:20 -0400
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>
>> Cc: 47244 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 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"

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(mwd <at> cert.org)




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