Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!CS.WISC.EDU!dave From: dave@CS.WISC.EDU (Dave Cohrs) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: memory management problems with Emacs18.52 Message-ID: <8812040343.AA04896@romano.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 4 Dec 88 03:43:19 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 22 I'm having some severe memory management problems with emacs, and I'm hoping someone else has found and fixed these things already! Environment: Sun4/110 SunOS 4.0 X11R2 HAVE_X_WINDOWS, X11, HAVE_X_MENU defined Emacs 18.52 w/X11 mods from expo The problem that I see from various places, free() gets called with an invalid address. Sometimes these addresses appear good, other times really strange (once it got called with a pointer equal to 0x7fffffff). The way it gets there varies. Once it was from x-proc-mouse-event, another time it was garbage collecting. No, it doesn't happen consistently, just when it's most inconvenient :-) Has anyone else seen these problems? Any pointers appreciated. Thanks, Dave Cohrs