Re: Reproducible crashes: dropping an URL

[Stefan Monnier]

> I found out a recipe to reproduce the crash with a current trunk build
> on both, x86_64 and i586:
> - Start with `-Q'
> - Open www.gnu.org in Firefox.
> - Drag/drop any URL into Emacs' scratch buffer, e.g. "GNU Project".
> => crash.  (My 2006-01-27 built doesn't crash here.)
[...]
> Emacs fatal error: [...]/emacs/src/alloc.c:3212: assertion failed: 
> !handling_signal

Try the patch below (which I just installed).


        Stefan


--- alloc.c     17 Feb 2006 10:49:33 -0500      1.390
+++ alloc.c     17 Feb 2006 10:59:16 -0500      
@@ -3209,7 +3209,7 @@
 
   CHECK_STRING (name);
 
-  eassert (!handling_signal);
+  /* eassert (!handling_signal); */
 
 #ifndef SYNC_INPUT
   BLOCK_INPUT;