Re: crash when opening a newsgroup

[Timmy Douglas]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I'm not very familiar with emacs internals or how to investigate this
>     sort of thing.
>
> Please read etc/DEBUG--it gives a lot of info about how to debug
> Emacs problems.
>
> I hope someone else here will give you individual help in debugging
> this.
>
>     (gdb) frame 4
>     #4  0x08185c1c in Fsignal (error_symbol=137657473, data=151680309) at 
> eval.c:1543
>     1543          if (bp && bp->function && EQ (*bp->function, Qerror))
>
> Which of those values is invalid?

maybe it's bp->function?

(gdb) frame 4
#4  0x08185c1c in Fsignal (error_symbol=137657473, data=151680309) at 
eval.c:1543
warning: Source file is more recent than executable.

1543          if (bp && bp->function && EQ (*bp->function, Qerror))
(gdb) p bp
$1 = (struct backtrace *) 0x8c5bf5c
(gdb) p bp->function
$2 = (int *) 0x64
(gdb) p *bp->function
Cannot access memory at address 0x64
(gdb) p *bp
$3 = {next = 0x70746e6e, function = 0x64, args = 0x8c70478, nargs = 1852141679, 
evalargs = 45 '-', 
  debug_on_exit = 116 't'}

(gdb) p *bp->next
Cannot access memory at address 0x70746e6e
(gdb) p *bp->args
$5 = 15