Re: Crashes of GNU Emacs 23

[Jan D.]

> Am 07.07.2005 um 11:41 schrieb Jan D.:
>
>
> > % gdb emacs
>
> Here it is when I chose 'Send Bug Report' from the text Help menu  
> (it is staying open now and nothing seems to happen):
>
> pete 179 /\ gdb emacs
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> Reading symbols for shared libraries ................ done
> DISPLAY = :0.0
> TERM = dumb
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x9009fb58
> Breakpoint 2 at 0xf18e0: file xterm.c, line 7795.
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /Users/pete/Quellen/Emacs_CVS/emacs--unicode--0-- 
> patch-67/src/emacs -geometry 80x40+0\
> +0
> Reading symbols for shared libraries +++ 
> +.................................................. done
>
> Breakpoint 2, x_error_quitter (display=0x4907400, error=0xbfffba00)  
> at xterm.c:7795
> 7795      XGetErrorText (display, error->error_code, buf, sizeof  
> (buf));
> (gdb) p buf1

You have to do next twice so this and the next line gets executed.   
You are printing out an unitialized variable.  That is:

Breakpoint 2, x_error_quitter (display=0x4907400, error=0xbfffba00)  
at  xterm.c:7795
7795      XGetErrorText (display, error->error_code, buf, sizeof (buf));
(gdb) n
(gdb) n
(gdb) p buf1

You forgot the stack trace.

    Jan D.