It happens with any string whatsoever actually, even the empty string. it only works if the file exists.


2014-09-13 3:39 GMT-05:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 11:31:52 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 18463@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 02:35:22 -0500
> > From: Mario Valencia <mariovalspi@gmail.com>
> > Cc: 18463@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > I don't know where those binaries with debug info are.
>
> Here are 2 places:
>
>   https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3pgcb3iiy8s9irl/c171Xhsd99
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/emacs-bin/files/releases/
>
> On the 1st site, take the latest zip of the 24.3.91 series.

But please wait for the next binary after today, since what is there
now has its sound support disabled due to the bug I mentioned in my
previous mail.

Btw, do you see crashes for _any_ non-existing file, or just for some
of them?  E.g., do you have non-ASCII characters in those file names?
How about the leading directories: if the file name includes leading
directories outside of the C:/Users tree, does the problem still
happen?