Re: emacs 22.1.50 death on 64-bit Windows

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Comments: In-reply-to Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>    message dated "Tue, 22 May 2007 09:44:52 +0300."
> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 07:39:27 -0700
> From: Kevin Layer <layer@franz.com>
> 
> >> First, can you try the latest pretest of Emacs 22.1?  You can find it
> >> here:
> >> 
> >>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-22.0.990.tar.gz
> 
> I will download and test this today.
> 
> I assume this is a source and not binary distribution.  Is is supposed
> to build on 64-bit Windows, or do I do the "build on 32-bit and run on
> 64-bit" thing?

The latter.  If you use the MinGW port of GCC to build, you don't have
an alternative, anyway, as there's no 64-bit of that yet.

> I also wonder how the above differs from what's in CVS.  I checked my
> version out of CVS yesterday.

You checked out from the trunk, while the pretests are delivered from
a release branch.  The differences are not very large, so if you
prefer to debug this in the CVS version, go ahead with that.

> >> If the above pretest also crashes on 64-bit Windows, the best way to
> >> debug this is to run Emacs under a debugger (GDB if your Emacs was
> >> compiled with GCC or Visual Studio if it was compiled by MSVC).
> 
> Yes, I know that's the best way, but it does require knowledge of
> emacs internals that I do not possess.

But others do, and if you produce information from the debug session,
they will guide you through the process.

But please, if you decide to give it a go, report the results on
emacs-devel@gnu.org, not here.

Thanks in advance.