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Re: tooltip/widget/sit-for related crash


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: tooltip/widget/sit-for related crash
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:24:10 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     #24 0x080cc3d7 in x_wm_set_size_hint (f=0x0, flags=2, 
> user_position=-1075527256) at xterm.c:9181
>           size_hints = {  
>
>
> Was f really 0 when this function was called?  (You can check by
> looking at data in the calling function.)  If so, that was surely
> incorrect, so please try to debug why the caller passed 0 for f.

Problem is that the stack backtrace is broken after that frame, so
we don't know the caller...  (unless someone can figure out
the sequence of calls from the xbacktrace)...

>
> It looks like this crash is in the middle of the X libraries,
> and they were not compiled with debugging symbols.
>
> If we are lucky, the f=0 will lead us to a bug in Emacs without the
> need to poke around inside the X libraries.  But unless we have such
> luck, it will be necessary to recompile using a debugging version of
> those libraries.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk





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