From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 23.1.93 pretest Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:32:42 +0200 Message-ID: <831vg5cll1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pr3rny7e.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83fx4n122q.fsf@gnu.org> <833a0ndlo0.fsf@gnu.org> <83vddidh73.fsf@gnu.org> <83hbp2cxgx.fsf@gnu.org> <87aauugy1g.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83eik6co9l.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxyuyvxy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fx4l8mkf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267378377 23587 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2010 17:32:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:32:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 18:32:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nln0Y-0002gm-7P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:32:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nln0X-0005Wo-Lk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:32:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nln0R-0005WH-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:32:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58217 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nln0O-0005V8-W9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:32:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nln0O-0001qe-5H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:32:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:43421) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nln0N-0001qa-Sq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:32:36 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KYK00600B7TQ500@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:32:33 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.17.203]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KYK000HBBE8ZKF0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:32:33 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87fx4l8mkf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121474 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:25:04 -0500 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Andreas Schwab writes: > > > If that fixes anything then it was already broken before. > > Yes, I think it was indeed broken before, and it's probably an accident > that it worked before. The entries->next pointer needs to be > initialized. (So we need the patch anyway, and I've checked it in.) Well, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to solve the problem. And I agree with Andreas: if this were the reason, Emacs would have needed an unreasonable amount of luck to work before this change. I don't think the stack is zeroed out on Windows; I'm _positive_ it does not get zeroed out in the MSDOS build (just checked in the DJGPP library sources to be sure).