From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 17526@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17526: 24.3.90; Crash in Cygwin-w32 build
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 21:49:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537AB49D.8060904@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <537A7BE6.7080307@dancol.org>
On 5/19/2014 5:47 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On 05/19/2014 02:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 5/19/2014 5:00 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>>> On 05/19/2014 12:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>>> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 15:19:24 -0400
>>>>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>>>>> CC: 17526@debbugs.gnu.org
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/19/2014 11:18 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>>>>> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 08:30:49 -0400
>>>>>>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just got a crash with the following backtrace:
>>>
>>> There goes my BLODA theory (assuming you don't have any). These crashes
>>> (including the indirect-variable one) are all seemingly impossible, but
>>> if there were generalized random memory corruption, I'd expect to see
>>> more severe effects. I have no idea what's wrong. Both trunk and
>>> emacs-24 seem to be affected: did something change in the Cygwin DLL
>>> side?
>>
>> Not that I know of. By the way, all these crashes that are being
>> reported are in 64-bit Cygwin, FWIW. So it may very well be a Cygwin
>> problem rather than an emacs problem.
>>
>> Do you have a 64-bit Cygwin installation on which you could try to
>> reproduce this? The crashes are seemingly random. I've occasionally
>> gotten a crash a few seconds after starting emacs, but other times I've
>> run emacs for days without a problem. So you might have to wait a long
>> time. Also, I don't always get a chance to attach gdb. In other words,
>> emacs just dies with a SEGV, but apparently without calling emacs_abort.
>
> I don't, and it'll be at least a week or so before I'm able to set one
> up. Nobody's reported crashes in the X11 Emacs? What about cygw32 run
> with -nw?
No, all the recent crash reports have been for cygw32. But I doubt if
anyone has run it with -nw. I'll try that myself.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-20 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-19 12:30 bug#17526: 24.3.90; Crash in Cygwin-w32 build Ken Brown
2014-05-19 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-19 19:19 ` Ken Brown
2014-05-19 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-19 19:53 ` Ken Brown
2014-05-19 21:00 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-05-19 21:45 ` Ken Brown
2014-05-19 21:47 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-05-20 1:49 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2014-05-20 1:52 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-05-20 2:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-21 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
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