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From: cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: Bug in apropos
Message-ID: <11152@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 28 Nov 89 03:59:37 GMT
References: <3947@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Sender: cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty)
Reply-To: cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty)
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Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In-reply-to: mfuller@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov (Mike J. Fuller)

In article <3947@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, mfuller@prandtl (Mike J. Fuller) writes:
>[Trying (apropos "nil") sometimes core dumps emacs, sometimes gives
> garbage, and sometimes gives illegal datatype errors.]

I can reproduce this bug (Emacs 18.55, Sun 4, SunOS 4.0.?), although I
couldn't get Emacs to core dump.  I noticed that every time it messed
up (giving garbage or illegal datatype errors), it had done a garbage
collection during the execution of (apropos "nil"), although it did
occasionally do a garbage collection without messing up the apropos.
Looks like apropos isn't handling garbage collection protection
correctly.

Carl Witty
cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU


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