Emacs crashes when I open a .cpp.file

Emacs crashes when I open a .cpp.file

[William Payne]

Hello, emacs crashes when I open a cpp-file (haven't tried with any other 
files that trigger my c++ language hook). The following message is displayed 
in the console:
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual 
way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

[1]+  Exit 3                  emacs read_directory.cpp

I thought that it might be a problem with CC-Mode so I installed the latest 
stable version (5.30.9), but Emacs still crashes. Is there anything I can do 
to track down and maybe solve/work around this error?

I am using the developement version of Emacs, just checked out from the CVS.

/ WP 

Re: Emacs crashes when I open a .cpp.file

[Alan Mackenzie]

William Payne <mikas493_no_spam@student.liu.se> wrote on Wed, 11 Aug 2004
22:40:51 +0200:

> Hello, emacs crashes when I open a cpp-file (haven't tried with any other 
> files that trigger my c++ language hook). The following message is displayed 
> in the console:
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual 
> way.
> Please contact the application's support team for more information.

> [1]+  Exit 3                  emacs read_directory.cpp

> I thought that it might be a problem with CC-Mode so I installed the latest 
> stable version (5.30.9), but Emacs still crashes. Is there anything I can do 
> to track down and maybe solve/work around this error?

> I am using the developement version of Emacs, just checked out from the CVS.

CC Mode 5.30.9 is a stable release version, but it's only just been
released in the last few days, so there might conceivably be a problem
with it. 

Could you possibly try the thing again with a stable Emacs (say, 21.3)?
That would at least narrow down where the problem is.

Bear in mind that the latest Emacs CVS is not intended to be a stable
production program.

> / WP 

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Re: Emacs crashes when I open a .cpp.file

[William Payne]

"Alan Mackenzie" <acm@muc.de> wrote in message news:2suifc.n7.ln@acm.acm...
> William Payne <mikas493_no_spam@student.liu.se> wrote on Wed, 11 Aug 2004
> 22:40:51 +0200:
>
>> Hello, emacs crashes when I open a cpp-file (haven't tried with any other
>> files that trigger my c++ language hook). The following message is 
>> displayed
>> in the console:
>> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
>> way.
>> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>
>> [1]+  Exit 3                  emacs read_directory.cpp
>
>> I thought that it might be a problem with CC-Mode so I installed the 
>> latest
>> stable version (5.30.9), but Emacs still crashes. Is there anything I can 
>> do
>> to track down and maybe solve/work around this error?
>
>> I am using the developement version of Emacs, just checked out from the 
>> CVS.
>
> CC Mode 5.30.9 is a stable release version, but it's only just been
> released in the last few days, so there might conceivably be a problem
> with it.
>
> Could you possibly try the thing again with a stable Emacs (say, 21.3)?
> That would at least narrow down where the problem is.
>
> Bear in mind that the latest Emacs CVS is not intended to be a stable
> production program.
>
>> / WP
>
> -- 
> Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
> Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
> (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").
>

Thanks for the reply, Alan. I noticed in the CVS that it's using 5.30.9 of 
CCMode too. I have been checking out the CVS sources once day but it still 
crashes when it tries to load CCMode. I will try later with an older version 
of CCMode (5.30.8) and on the latest stable version of emacs as you 
suggested. I know this last question isn't emacs-related but do you know how 
I can check the date and time of the latest checkin to the emacs cvs 
sources?

/ WP 

Re: Emacs crashes when I open a .cpp.file

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thanks for the reply, Alan. I noticed in the CVS that it's using 5.30.9 of 

As the INSTALL.CVS file says, please send any problems you encounter with
this code to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org (or better yet, report it with M-x
report-emacs-bug).
A crash like you describe is clearly a bug in the C code of Emacs and not in
cc-mode (even if it might be triggered by cc-mode).


        Stefan