Re: emacs from cvs on GNU dumps core when opening any kind of c file

[Jan D.]

Han Boetes wrote:
> Han Boetes wrote:
>
> > This crash happens on both GNU and OpenBSD.
>
>
> I actually found out that one specific line in my .emacs causes this crash.
>
> mv .emacs .emacs_bak
> echo '(standard-display-european t)' > .emacs
> emacs some/c/file.c
>
> and there is the core-dump.
> This happens since the beginning of august.

The buffer contents is "foo123", ZV is 7, BEGV is 1.  Crach happens here in 
intervals.c, charpos is 8:

2032      /* Check this now, before checking if the buffer has any intervals.
2033         That way, we can catch conditions which break this sanity check
2034         whether or not there are intervals in the buffer.  */
2035      if (charpos > BUF_ZV (buffer) || charpos < BUF_BEGV (buffer))
2036        abort ();

I think there is a bug in skip_chars in syntax.c.  In the last while (1) loop,
we are skipping backwards, but the code says:

              while (1)
                {
                  if (p <= stop)
                    {
                      if (p <= endp)
                        break;
                      p = GPT_ADDR;
                      stop = endp;
                    }

                  if (! NILP (iso_classes) && in_classes (p[-1], iso_classes))
                    {
                      if (negate)
                        break;
                      else
                        goto fwd_ok;
-----------------------------^^^^^^---------
                    }

                  if (!fastmap[p[-1]])
                    break;

                  p--, pos--;
                }

thus increasing pos beyond the end of the buffer.
Just changing this to goto back_ok does not fix it, because then the loop is 
exited only when pos is 0, i.e. before the start of the buffer, and the same 
abort happens.

Hopefully someone with more knowledge of this code knows whats wrong.

        Jan D.