bug#15088: 24.3; Hard crash on OSX when editing header files

[Simon Stapleton]

Hi Jan.

On 13 Aug 2013, at 20:00, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:

>> xbacktrace doesn't do anything on my gdb.  Go figure.
> 
> You have to be in the emacs source src/ directory, and do
> % gdb ../nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
> 
> or otherwise make gdb read the .gdbinit in the src/ directory.

Re-downing the source right now, will rebuild and test.

>> My suspicion is that pabbrev is triggering the issue, but quite how, I don't 
>> know.
> 
> How would that be involved if you started with -Q?

<insert palm-forehead sound here>

With -Q, no crash.  Which means it's probably not a core emacs bug, but rather 
an elisp issue somewhere that's causing badness, right?

Any ideas on how I should go about chasing it down?

Cheers

Simon