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Re: trying again wrt xemacs segfault
David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> writes:
> On 15 Jan 02, Henry S. Thompson writes:
> > Here's what I keep trying to say:
> >
> > [I sent this to comp.emacs.xemacs a week ago, no replies]
> >
> > I'm getting a segfault during fontification in xemacs
> > 21.4.6-built-for-cygwin, the binary (setup.exe) xemacs distribution, when
> > re_search_2 calls re_match_2_internal at offset 1016
> >
> > I'm running cygwin 1.3.6-6.
> >
> > This is the same fault I hit with 21.4.5.
> >
> > Doesn't happen with 21.4.3.
>
> Then perhaps it's a bug in xemacs, or a problem with the binary xemacs
> distribution? Have you tried to build these versions of xemacs
> yourself?
It may well be an xemacs bug, although the regexp code doesn't appear
to have changed recently. I haven't attempted the recompile, as I
assumed the people who built the xemacs-for-cygwin package were likely
to be better at it than I would be . . .
ht
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