Re: SIGSEGV

[Alex Schroeder]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Now, I did get a SIGSEGV, but I am not sure this means that I should
>> refrain from using pr.  Am I in "deep" trouble?  :)
>
> Yes. ;-)  Any Emacs session that got hit by a SIGSEGV is potentially
> in trouble, and you should not use `pr'.
>
>> (gdb) p area
>> $1 = 4159400
>
> That value looks _way_ too large.  You will see in enum glyph_row_area
> (defined on dispextern.h) that `area' should have only a small number
> of values.
>
>> Ok, then I tried to find the value for LAST_AREA.  I did not find it
>> with a grep through the sources
>
> See dispextern.h, it's all there.

Heh.  Do you have any suggestions as to what to try, or where to set
breakpoints so that I can debug this better the next time?

Alex