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Need help with Epoch crash on HP/Apollo

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From: Mark Evans
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1991 23:24
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Greetings.

I'm doing sysadmin for an Apollo network and have finally succeeded in 
getting people to use Epoch.  We've been running into a crash, the
traceback for which is shown below:

    Program        //tintagel/usr/local/bin/epoch
    Status         00040004: reference to illegal address (OS/MST manager)
    In routine     "direct_output_for_insert" line 4294967284
    Called from    "command_loop_1" line 616
    Called from    "internal_condition_case" line 4
    Called from    "command_loop_2" line 13
    Called from    "internal_catch" offset 78
    Called from    "command_loop" line 1
    Called from    "Frecursive_edit" line 4294967290
    Called from    "main" line 55
    Called from    "unix_$main" line 114
    Called from    "_start" line 4294967288
    Called from    "PM_$CALL" line 176
    Called from    "pgm_$load_run" line 903
    Called from    "pgm_$invoke_uid_pn" line 1124

We are running Epoch 3.2 on a 400 series Apollo running DomainOS
SR10.3.  Obviously some of the line numbers are bollixed.  The
direct_output_for_insert routine that I built epoch with is shown
below.  I would be most appreciative if someone in the know could tell
me whether this is a known problem.  Are there any patches to the code
below (or elsewhere) that will prevent the crash?  I wish I could tell
you how to reproduce the crash.  We haven't figured that out yet.
    
Thanks!

/* --------------------------------------------------------------------- */
int
direct_output_for_insert (c)
     int c;
{
  register struct display_line *p = WS->phys_line[WS->cursor_y + 1];
#ifndef COMPILER_REGISTER_BUG
  register
#endif /* COMPILER_REGISTER_BUG */
    struct window *w = XWINDOW (selected_window);
#ifndef COMPILER_REGISTER_BUG
  register
#endif /* COMPILER_REGISTER_BUG */
    int hpos = WS->cursor_x;

  /* Give up if about to continue line */
  if (hpos - XFASTINT (w->left) + 1 + 1 >= XFASTINT (w->width)

  /* Avoid losing if cursor is in invisible text off left margin */
      || XINT (w->hscroll) && hpos == XFASTINT (w->left)
    
  /* Give up if cursor outside window (in minibuf, probably) */
      || WS->cursor_y < XFASTINT (w->top)
      || WS->cursor_x >= XFASTINT (w->top) + XFASTINT (w->height)

  /* Give up if cursor not really at cursX, cursY */
      || !display_completed

  /* Give up if w is minibuffer and a message is being displayed there */
      || EQ (selected_window, minibuf_window) && minibuf_message

      /* if shared buffers, then it's going to fail too. */
      || buffer_shared > 1
      )
    return 0;

  p->body[hpos] = c;
#ifdef BUTTON
  p->attrib[hpos] =
    hpos > 0 ? p->attrib[hpos-1] : get_button(bf_cur,point,0,0,0);
#endif
  unchanged_modified = bf_modified;
  beg_unchanged = bf_s1;
  XFASTINT (w->last_point) = point;
  XFASTINT (w->last_point_x) = WS->cursor_x;
  XFASTINT (w->last_modified) = bf_modified;

  reassert_line_highlight (0, WS->cursor_y);
  write_chars (p->body + hpos, 1);
#ifndef CB
  fflush (stdout);
#endif
  ++(WS->cursor_x);
  p->length = max (p->length, WS->cursor_x);
  p->body[p->length] = 0;
  return 1;
}
/* --------------------------------------------------------------------- */
-- 
Mark S. Evans                 Tandem Telecommunications Systems Inc.
Phone: 214-516-6201           850 E. Central Parkway
Fax:   214-516-6801           Plano, TX 75074
Mail:  mse@ttsi.lonestar.org
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From: mse@ttsi.lonestar.org (Mark Evans)
Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc
Subject: Need help with Epoch crash on HP/Apollo
Message-ID: <1991Aug21.232403.5439@ttsi.lonestar.org>
Date: 21 Aug 91 23:24:03 GMT
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