GNU bug report logs - #66743
30.0.50; Crash when dumping reftex

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>

Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:46:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 66743 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: yantar92 <at> posteo.net, 66743 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66743: 30.0.50; Crash when dumping reftex
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:37:24 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Emacs is always dumped with a few buffers, because temacs needs them
> to do the dumping.  See this comment text from buffer.c:
>
> 	 Implementation notes: the buffers we carry from temacs are:
> 	 " prin1", "*scratch*", " *Minibuf-0*", "*Messages*", and
> 	 " *code-conversion-work*".  They are created by
> 	 init_buffer_once and init_window_once (which are not called
> 	 in the dumped Emacs), and by the first call to coding.c
> 	 routines.

Thanks.

So, one idea would be to try and move the creation of these buffers from
the init_*_once functions to the "normal" init functions, and see what
happens. One would also have to take a closer look at coding.c, of course.
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