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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2024-04-25 12:39:36 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2024-04-25 12:39:36 +0300 |
| commit | 1cc6322e61275ad8b5056eb7dd43af6fe459aa0b (patch) | |
| tree | 3568e4bacd43e1c09b01e20de0235fd0dfeaf7f2 /etc/PROBLEMS | |
| parent | 42766f95e5c0e7eb9e21db964ed93c7e093cc0b9 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-1cc6322e61275ad8b5056eb7dd43af6fe459aa0b.tar.gz | |
; * etc/PROBLEMS: Document crashes due to tree-sitter ABI (bug#70438).
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 54dc23c0951..2b3b7ba96f6 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -216,6 +216,28 @@ arguments you intend to pass to Emacs): $ SNAP=1 SNAP_NAME=1 SNAP_REVISION=1 emacs ... +** Emacs built with tree-sitter crashes when some *-ts-mode is turned on. + +The crash is in many cases an abort due to run-time detection of stack +smashing, and it happens when one of the *-ts-mode modes is turned on +in a buffer. + +The reason is that the tree-sitter library changed its Application +Binary Interface (ABI) between version 0.22.2 and 0.22.4, but did not +increment the ABI version number. Therefore, Emacs compiled with +tree-sitter versions before the change will try to use the shared +library after the change, and crash due to incompatibilities in the +ABI. + +Until and unless the tree-sitter developers release a library with an +updated ABI version, the solution is to rebuild Emacs with the actual +library with which it will be used. If you cannot rebuild Emacs, +downgrade your tree-sitter library to version 0.22.2 or older. + +The relevant tree-sitter issue is here: + + https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/3296 + ** Emacs crashes when you try to view a file with complex characters. One possible reason for this could be a bug in the libotf or the |