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Some of my colleagues have been having crashes in Emacs-18.55 and
Emacs-18.57 once or twice a week and I was wondering if there is
anything that you can recommend.

The funny thing is that most of us *never* have crashes, and those
that do always claim not to have been doing anything unusual at the
time.  For a while, it was only people running a particular program
under their shell-mode shell.  Is it possible for badly behaved
sub-processes to crash Emacs?

We've not touched the C source-code at all, are not running out of
swap-space (although we do get close) and manage to get crashes
equally on all three of our unix platforms (sparc, decstation and
rs/6000).  I've added quite a lot (7000 lines) of Lisp extensions,
including some elaborate filters and mouse-handling stuff, but,
presumably, I shouldn't be able to crash Emacs from Lisp.

According to the core-dumps, the crashes are happening in `alloc.c'.

I admire Emacs greatly and will continue using it (and recommending
it!) and so would be very grateful for any advice that you can give me.

Dominic Prior  (dominic@smallworld.co.uk)