Re: mml-read-tag infinite loop?

[Eric Knauel <knauel@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

On Fri 03 Feb 2006 17:29, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:

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> On Fri, Feb 03 2006, Eric Knauel wrote:
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>> No Gnus v0.4
>> XEmacs 21.5  (beta22) "cucumber" (+Xft+CVS-20050926) [Lucid] (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, Mule) of Fri Jan 27 2006 on midgard.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I upgraded to No Gnus v0.4 recently (last CVS updated 03 Feb 2006) 
>
> Which Gnus version (date) did you use before?  Can you track the
> problem down to a change in Gnus?  (In `mml.el' there haven't been
> many changes.)

Unfortunately not, I upgraded from 5.10.7.

>> By setting some breakpoints I tried to locate that loop.  After a
>> while control reached mml-read-tag.  mml-parse-1 seems to call this
>> function several times and it seems to run over the complete buffer,
>> however I have the impression it doesn't stop at the end of buffer:
>
> Wild guess: Could be a problem in XEmacs 21.5 similar to those listed
> in `lisp/dgnushack.el':
>
> ,----[ lisp/dgnushack.el ]
> | ;; Work around for an incompatibility (XEmacs 21.4 vs. 21.5), see the
> | ;; following threads:
> | ;;
> | ;; http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56414| ;;
> Subject: attachment problems found but not fixed
> | ;;
> | ;; http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56459| ;; Subject: Splitting mail -- XEmacs 21.4 vs 21.5
> | ;;
> | ;; http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta/20519| ;; Subject: XEmacs 21.5 and Gnus fancy splitting.
> `----

Seems to be same problem.  The workaround solve the problem for me.
Thanks!

-Eric
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