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>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:

 Andrew> emacs-25.1,3 built with x11 support and running in graphical
 Andrew> mode is unstable; crashes randomly either with a mutex
 Andrew> assertion (enqueue_mutex complaining that the mutex is already
 Andrew> owned) or with SEGV. Running in text mode, it doesn't crash,
 Andrew> but hitting pagedown in some buffers (where there are many
 Andrew> similar lines) _reliably_ produces incorrect display output in
 Andrew> which some characters are displaced by 4:

Extra bonus strangeness: recompiling just emacs without cortex-a7 does
not fix either of these, so it's not an issue with miscompiling any of
the emacs code. This is consistent with my experimentation with git.

-- 
Andrew.