Re: XEmacs segfault

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-02-01) writes:
>
>> Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> When trying to prepare an example for the xemacs-beta list XEmacs just
>>> died.  I am currently on a dial-up connection and won't search for the
>>> reference to the respective message including a backtrace but you
>>> should be able to find it via Gmane.
>>>
>>> I suspect the segfault is a result of the presence of shy groups in
>>> `LaTeX-auto-class-regexp-list'.  At least it doesn't happen if I
>>> remove the entries containing shy groups from the variable.  We
>>> should definitely not ship 11.55 with these regexps enabled in
>>> XEmacs.
>>
>> !@##@$#!
>
> Yes, it's really getting funny.
>
>> What XEmacs version?
>
> 21.4.16.  There was some discussion on the XEmacs lists about problems
> with shy groups in connection with Gnus.  In this case the result was
> a hang of XEmacs.  As far as I know this started with 21.4.16.  They
> recently found a fix for that but I don't know if this will fix as
> well the segfault I am seeing here.
>
> It wouldn't be a big deal to disable the regexps in concern for XEmacs
> in general, but if we get some feedback from the XEmacs people we
> could probably disable them for affected releases only.

Maybe it is just a problem of initializing the data structures once.
Just do
(string-match "\\(\\(\\(\\(\\(\\(\\(\\(\\(\\(\\(\\(\\(\\(\\(\\(.\
               \\)\\)\\)\\)\\)\\)\\)\\)\\)\\)\\)\\)\\)\\)\\)\\)" "x")
once, and everything will turn out fine.

Or something.  I hate life.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum