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Article #704repeatable illegal instruction bug in emacs 18.57
From: Francesco Potorti`
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:55
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:55
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I defined a function to speed up setting the debug-on-error flag:
(defun debug ()
(interactive)
(setq debug-on-error t))
Unfortunately, it appears that 'debug' is already defined in debug.el:
(defun debug (&rest debugger-args)
...
When I type M-x debug, then cause an error (by typing "M-< C-b", for
example) emacs hangs for a while, then dumps core. I'd normally expect
this to stop after a short time, saying "Lisp nesting exceeds
max-lisp-eval-depth", but it doesn't in this case.
The same happens on a Motorola Delta running emacs 18.58.
The emacs process begins to slowly eat up memory until it dumps core.
The whole story is very slow: every ~1 min. the process size increases by
approx. 800Kbytes.
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!fly.cnuce.cnr.it!pot From: pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it (Francesco Potorti`) Subject: repeatable illegal instruction bug in emacs 18.57 Message-ID: <m0mK5gd-0001EJC@fly.cnuce.cnr.IT> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: pot@cnuce.cnr.it Organization: GNUs Not Usenet References: <9207310826.AA00253@sun19.src.bae.co.uk> Distribution: gnu Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:55:00 GMT Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 25