Re: How to diagnose emacs21 segfault?

2002-06-28 Thread Christian Lynbech
Step one would be to find out exactly how to reproduce the segfault. Without that it is extremely hard to found out. Then, since this is a segmentation fault, one would probably need to use GDB to examine the problem further. All rather involved if one does not know both C and the internals of ema

Re: How to diagnose emacs21 segfault?

2002-06-28 Thread D. Goel
Brian i will venture to try to blab about what little i know... i think that segfaults should be devbugged via gdb. The way is to first 'cd' to the directory containing your original .c files from which emacs was built. (If you downloaded emacs binaries, then you can get sources, say in debian

How to diagnose emacs21 segfault?

2002-06-28 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I have been using Emacs and ESS (Emacs speaks statistics) along with R, S+, and SAS for several years. Yesterday, twice in a row, I had Emacs disappear from my screen and a segfault message in the xterm! At both times, I was using R (version 1.5.1) and ESS (version 5.1.20-2). My emacs ver