Re: Mac OSX running Carbon crash with today's CVS

[Andrew Choi]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:39:25 -0700
> > From: Gabriel Foster <address@hidden>
> > 
> > In the most recent case, I had just hit the enter key.

It may help to know what you were doing /before/ you hit the enter key.

> Can you cause the same crash if you type "M-x garbage-collect RET"
> right after starting Emacs?
> 
> > (gdb) print tail
> > $2 = (struct gcpro *) 0xbfffde20
> > (gdb) print *tail->var[i]
> > Cannot access memory at address 0x1
> > (gdb) print tail->var[i]
> > Cannot access memory at address 0x1
> > (gdb) print tail->var
> > $3 = (volatile int *) 0x1
> 
> This is the problem, then: either tail->var or tail->nvars is garbled
> (I'm guessing it's the latter).
> 
> Does anyone have a clue why this could happen on a Mac?  [...]

No, except that I've been running the CVS version on April 21 for two
days now without any problems.  I also haven't got any crashes from
previous versions.