Re: Crash in M$ build using msvc 7.1

[dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>]

Hi,
 I built with all image library support (except gif), I still get the
same crash in the GC. I will build using GCC and post the results.

-dhruva

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Andrey Zhdanov <susuman@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  dhruva wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > i am trying to use emacs from head built with msvc compiler on xp
> > with no image libraries. I have disabled all image support in the
> > configure (could this cause problems?). It crashes on startup. I am
>
> > trying to debug. Is it a known problem?
> Yes, it's crashing and I reported here on Apr-14. I did try
> build with/without image libs, with --disable-font-backend - nothing
> helped.
> Crash is in the emacs.exe!gc_sweep() Line 6124
> Some how vector list become corrupted and vector->next points somewhere
> 0x6.... which gives us access violation.
> I guess that bug was brought with massive changes in alloc/GC on
> 20080201. My latest working build was on 20071117 and right now I'm
> building the HEAD on 20080131 to test that theory.



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