Re: XEmacs segfault

* David Kastrup (2005-02-01) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> 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.

Am I supposed to laugh or cry now?  After doing this, the segfault
doesn't happen anymore.

-- 
Ralf