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bug#26573: 25.1; emacs 25.1 crashes while I am killing a bunch of lines
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npostavs |
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bug#26573: 25.1; emacs 25.1 crashes while I am killing a bunch of lines |
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Sat, 24 Jun 2017 18:45:18 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
"ISHIKAWA,chiaki" <ishikawa@yk.rim.or.jp> writes:
> Yes, it is too bad that emacs has become a little unstable.
> Maybe the distributed souce code management system may have something
> to do with it. Before, developers were very careful and use only a
> single master repository thus messing it up would have been a cardinal
> sin, but
> nowadays, people can create various branches and merge them (at least
> so that it builds/compiles). BUT, the runtime behavior may suffer.
> Just my guess.
These problems with the allocater have actually been triggered by a
glibc change. The malloc hooks were dropped which forces Emacs to use a
different configuration that had not been widely tested for a long time,
so meanwhile bugs had crept in.