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

[emacs]

Ted Zlatanov wrote at about 11:48:55 -0400 on Thursday, October 24, 2013:
 > On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:10:08 -0400 <emacs@kosowsky.org> wrote: 
 > 
 > > Ted Zlatanov wrote at about 06:59:39 -0400 on Thursday, October 24, 2013:
 > >> On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:45:48 -0400 <emacs@kosowsky.org> wrote: 
 > >> Provide a backtrace, please.  I promise you we'll consider your proposal
 > >> and all the alternatives as soon as we know what's broken.
 > 
 > > OK... but before I invest in downloading and running a C-debugger,
 > > I want to be clear that there are actually 2 bugs here - one at the
 > > elisp level and one at the C-level
 > 
 > There could be 1 or 2 or N bugs, we don't know and would like facts (a 
 > backtrace).
 > 
 > Ted

Correction - at *least* one elisp bug and at *least* one C-code bug...
I would bet good money on that :P