Re: Never-ending redisplay_windows -loop

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Hannu Koivisto wrote:

> I attached gdb to a problematic Emacs process, stepped for a while and
> determined that Emacs never gets out of redisplay_windows.  Here's a
> backtrace:
> 
> #0  redisplay_windows (window=1210585536) at xdisp.c:9177
> #1  0x8066b64 in redisplay_windows (window=1215297432) at xdisp.c:9180
> #2  0x8066323 in redisplay_internal (preserve_echo_area=0) at xdisp.c:8786
> #3  0x8065360 in redisplay () at xdisp.c:8231
> #4  0x80d1875 in read_char (commandflag=1, nmaps=2, maps=0xbfffefbc,
>     prev_event=405181316, used_mouse_menu=0xbffff004) at keyboard.c:2272

What does "xbacktrace" print at this point?  (You will have to start GDB 
from the Emacs `src' directory to do that, since `xbacktrace' is defined 
on src/.gdbinit.)