bug#13939: 24.3; Emacs 24.3 release won't compile on Windows with the msvc toolchain

[李丁 <iamliding@gmail.com>]

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Though there are some minor errors (easy to fix), the latest trunk compiles
fine with msvc.

2013/3/15 Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>

> 李丁:  could you try to compile the trunk with msvc and confirm that it is
> working for you?
> I would be very glad to hear a positive report, meaning I didn't mess
> things up.
>
> Fabrice
>
>
> 2013/3/15 李丁 <iamliding@gmail.com>
>
>> 李丁, do you also compile Emacs 24.3 as a 64-bit executable?  Or do
>>> you build it as a 32-bit executable?
>>
>>
>> I compiled Emacs as a 32-bit executable.
>>
>> If I run only temacs.exe without any arguments, I get a very quick
>>> backtrace:
>>
>>
>> I also traced the execution of `temacs -batch -l loadup dump' with
>> windbg, and got a similar stack trace as Fabrice (I breakpointed
>> Fgarbage_collect):
>>
>> temacs!Fgarbage_collect [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\alloc.c @ 5094]
>> temacs!maybe_gc+0x3e [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\lisp.h @ 3717]
>>  temacs!eval_sub+0xda [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\eval.c @ 2042]
>> temacs!readevalloop+0x600 [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\lread.c @ 1843]
>> temacs!Fload+0xb86 [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\lread.c @ 1317]
>> temacs!eval_sub+0x5da [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\eval.c @ 2159]
>> temacs!Feval+0x60 [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\eval.c @ 2005]
>> temacs!top_level_2+0x15 [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\keyboard.c @
>> 1177]
>> temacs!internal_condition_case+0xde
>> [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\eval.c @ 1289]
>> temacs!top_level_1+0x26 [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\keyboard.c @
>> 1185]
>> temacs!internal_catch+0x97 [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\eval.c @ 1060]
>> temacs!command_loop+0x69 [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\keyboard.c @
>> 1146]
>> temacs!recursive_edit_1+0x71 [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\keyboard.c
>> @ 779]
>> temacs!Frecursive_edit+0x101 [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\keyboard.c
>> @ 844]
>> temacs!main+0xae7 [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\emacs.c @ 1530]
>> temacs!__tmainCRTStartup+0x1bf
>> [f:\dd\vctools\crt_bld\self_x86\crt\src\crtexe.c @ 555]
>> temacs!mainCRTStartup+0xf
>> [f:\dd\vctools\crt_bld\self_x86\crt\src\crtexe.c @ 371]
>> temacs!_start+0x62 [d:\data\projects\emacs-24.3\src\unexw32.c @ 134]
>>
>>
>> When I stepped out Fgarbage_collect, the error occurred just after this
>> gc at here in eval_sub:
>>
>> if (!CONSP (fun))
>> xsignal1 (Qinvalid_function, original_fun);
>>
>> I also tried removing most of loadup.el, and temacs can execute only the
>> first few lines, and even an additional `(+ 1 1)' caused temacs to exit
>> with the "DEAD" message. As I previously reported, I guess that the first
>> garbage collection cycle does not mark any read-in form, thus all of them
>> are collected (and their car set to Vdead).
>>
>>
>> 2013/3/15 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>>
>>>  > From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
>>> > Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:28:45 +0100
>>> > Cc: 李丁 <iamliding@gmail.com>, 13939 <13939@debbugs.gnu.org>
>>> >
>>> > I tried importing this change in editfns.c but it doesn't change
>>> anything.
>>> >
>>> > If I run only temacs.exe without any arguments, I get a very quick
>>> > backtrace:
>>> >
>>> > C:\>"C:\Source\XEmTeX\emacs\emacs-24.3\src/obj-spd/AMD64/temacs.exe"
>>> > Loading loadup.el (source)...
>>> > Invalid function: "DEAD"
>>> >
>>> > > temacs.exe!eval_sub(__int64 form) Line 2195 C
>>> >   temacs.exe!readevalloop(__int64 readcharfun, _iobuf * stream, __int64
>>> > sourcename, char printflag, __int64 unibyte, __int64 readfun, __int64
>>> > start, __int64 end) Line 1845 C
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> 李丁, do you also compile Emacs 24.3 as a 64-bit executable?  Or do
>>> you build it as a 32-bit executable?
>>>
>>
>>
>

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