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Re: Using 'git bisect' to pinpoint errors in .emacs. Was: Fatal error 11


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Using 'git bisect' to pinpoint errors in .emacs. Was: Fatal error 11: Segmentation Fault
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:35:48 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

Vegard Vesterheim wrote:

> After upgrading to emacs25 some time ago,
> I experienced that emacs would segfault every
> so often. I have been using emacs for many
> years, and my .emacs file is constantly
> tweaked, so it was difficult to pinpoint what
> was causing the crash. I finally discovered
> a way to reliably reproduce this segfault.
> Since I have my .emacs in git, it was simply
> a matter of supplying a small script that
> triggered the error to the 'git bisect run'
> command. After running for a while git was
> able to pinpoint the change in my .emacs that
> triggered the bug.

Interesting. And what small script was that, if
I may?

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