Re: infloop when removing character

[Simon Josefsson]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> 0x405eff67 in mallopt () from /lib/libc.so.6
>> (gdb) bt full
>> #0  0x405eff67 in mallopt () from /lib/libc.so.6
>> No symbol table info available.
>
> Hmmm, I've seen this `infinite loop in mallopt' hang too, but it was on
> one my personal `very hacked' branches of emacs, so I assumed it was my
> bug.  So you're seeing this in vanilla CVS emacs?

Yes, I don't have any changes, not even elisp changes.

> I guess this is malloc heap corruption (and so a bitch to find).

Perhaps it is a result from a error-within-a-error like Richard
suggested.

Since the process has crashed now I'll have to wait for it to happen
again until I can test more ideas.