Subject: Re: bug#8437: Emacs crash when building with --enable-checking on Mac OS X

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:31:52 -0400

> From: Ben Key <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 21:37:42 -0500
> Cc: 
> 
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> When Emacs is configured with --enable-checking=xmallocoverrun on Mac OS X,
> Emacs crashes during the build process.  The error is as follows.
> 
> temacs(20348,0x7fff70e01ca0) malloc: *** error for object 0x10076c010:
> Non-aligned pointer being freed (2)
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> /bin/sh: line 1: 20348 Abort trap              `/bin/pwd`/temacs --batch
> --load loadup bootstrap
> make[1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Error 1

Thanks.  Can you try bisecting to find the commit which introduced
this problem?