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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: mwd <at> md5i.com, 47244 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, mwd <at> cert.org
Subject: Re: bug#47244: 28.0.50; SIGSEGV in long-runnning Emacs
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 15:59:53 +0300

> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:43:02 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
> cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, mwd <at> md5i.com, 
>     47244 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mwd <at> cert.org
> 
> >>> Bisection requires to know the last commit where the bug didn't exist.
> >>
> >> Not the *last* commit, that what bisection is for to find out.  It just 
> >> requires *any* commit where the bug didn't exist.
> >
> > Right, but that's unknown as well here.
> >
> 
> Usually the first step in bisecting is to find some distant commit where 
> the bug did not exist.

Sure, but given the time it takes to reproduce the problem, that could
take much longer than what Martin is doing now.  And if you go far
enough into the past, Emacs will stop building successfully, so you
are stuck there.
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 28 days ago.

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