From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 3422@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3422: 23.0.94; window-height returns window buffer
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 16:07:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50905300707u5a36452bu4fff9e243918b3fa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A213BB7.3010608@gnu.org>
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>
>> I do not think I can reproduce this, but (window-height win) just
>> returned the buffer win was displaying. I can reproduce it now, but I
>> doubt I can when I have restarted Emacs.
>>
>
> Are you saying that memory is corrupted such that the current window's
> total_lines member holds a buffer?
>
>> This was with my patched Emacs, but there is no patches in window.c.
>
> It doesn't matter where your patches are if they are causing the memory
> corruption.
>
>> I
>> suspect that this has something to do with frame creation since I have
>> seen many crashes there. Another possibility is w32 resources. I see a
>> steady increase in GDI Objects in Windows Task Manager and when that
>> starts to get high very strange things can happen (though it is
>> perhaps some other resource that is depleted).
>>
>
> What are you doing when you see this steady increase? Do you also see it in
> the current pretest or CVS trunk?
I do not think this is related to Emacs. It is a bug in xp (and I
think w2k too) in the handling of sticky keys. At each menu invocation
and window switching xp eats gdi objects. I have actually reported
this to ms, but ...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-30 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-30 13:20 bug#3422: 23.0.94; window-height returns window buffer Lennart Borgman
2009-05-30 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-05-30 13:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-10 0:26 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-10 0:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-05-30 13:59 ` Jason Rumney
2009-05-30 14:07 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
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