GNU bug report logs - #77046
31.0.50; Emacs sometimes crashes

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Message #80 received at 77046 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at>
Cc: gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 77046 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, pipcet <at> protonmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#77046: 31.0.50; Emacs sometimes crashes
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:25:46 -0400

Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Thanks.  I don't understand how's that possible, but I installed a
>> couple of trivial band-aids.
>
> Thank you! With 893c40c63e8e, the crashes still occur.
>
> The current situation has the nice advantage that I can quite easily
> reproduce the crash, adding new changes may also require changes in the
> example which may also lead to a more complex and harder to reproduce
> test case.
>
> A second issue now present is the question why the crash can only be
> reproduced in some but not all configurations.

If you can repro the crash, you can run it under rr and then just
reverse-execute the program to see what went wrong.  It's super
effective for dealing with problems like this.

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