bug#15648: 24.2.50; gnutls SSL connection to IMAP server causes emacs to crash completely, bug#15648: 24.2.50; gnutls SSL connection to IMAP server causes emacs to crash completely

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: <emacs@kosowsky.org>
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:22:58 -0400
> Cc: emacs@kosowsky.org, 15648@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Still, I'm surprised that Emacs itself would crash so violently. I
> have been using Emacs for 30 years and I can't recall ever crashing
> Emacs itself (except maybe ~25 years ago when people started first
> (unofficially) porting Emacs to X10/X11). Even if there is an external
> dll conflict, I would think that at worse it should return an error,
> but should not crash emacs -- certainly since gnutls is now included
> in Emacs, I would think that it should be crash protected...

If you show some data about the crash, from the C level (where the
crash happens), maybe we could figure out how to avoid this in the
future.  So far, you have only shown data from the Lisp level, which
doesn't help, because the crash is not in Lisp.

Without meaningful data about the crash, there's no hope we could do
anything about that.

Thanks in advance.