Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:09:39 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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Subject: Re: emacs hangs my machine 
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> Ok. A crash dump (over the text) is the result and the box heading
> says "Finished - emacs"

Sigh.  This is a known bug, but I haven't corrected it in 19.34
binaries on SimTel (because I don't work with Emacs 19.34 for about a
year and a half).  If you have Emacs sources installed, I can send you
a source-level patch.  If not, and if you are in bad need of the
clipboard support for large chunks of text, I suppose I could build a
patched version on my machine.

Anyway, this bug only happens if you kill text that is larger than the
amount of free conventional memory available to the DOS box, usually
about 580KB.

> Emacs aborted!
> Exiting due to signal SIGINT

This is not a crash, btw.  It's the Emacs replacement for the v2.01
library function `abort' in action.  Emacs aborted itself because it
discovered an internal bug (the known bug I was talking about above).