bug#17168: 24.3.50; Segfault at mark_object

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 13:40:06 -0700
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> CC: dmantipov@yandex.ru, theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr, 
>  17168@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >   (gdb) p Fsymbol_value(intern("emacs-bzr-version"))
> >   $5 = 57020481
> >   (gdb) xtype
> >   Lisp_String
> >   (gdb) xstring
> >   $6 = (struct Lisp_String *) 0x3661040
> >   "116894 rudalics@gmx.at-20140402143333-a56l2vy9oak0njsg"
> > 
> > Alas, you cannot do this when debugging a core file, you need a
> > running program.
> 
> I was afraid of that. Would you object to declaring
> emacs-repository-version in C so that we can find it more easily in core
> dumps?

I don't see anything wrong with that.