Re: Progress on bug#3521? mode-line updates break process-send-region

[David Engster]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
> Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
>> On my 32-bit machine, the error occurs earlier.  But If I insert an
>> `erase-buffer' call into your loop, so that the size of the temporary
>> buffer is bounded, Emacs completes the 999999-iteration loop without any
>> error.
>
> The whole point of the test case is the big size of the buffer string.
> This is a typical symptom of a GC bug.  I have checked in a fix.

Thank you! The bug is fixed for me.

It doesn't really matter anymore, but for what it's worth, I think this
bug was introduced with the merge of the unicode branch on
2008-02-01. But just when I wanted to dig further, Andreas checked in
the fix. :-)

-David