Jason Rumney wrote:
> Jason Rumney wrote:
>> One possible variable here is the way that buffer space is allocated. 
>> On Windows, it seems REL_ALLOC is defined. I presume GNU/Linux 
>> defines USE_MMAP_FOR_BUFFERS which would cause it to take a different 
>> code path around the point where we see a crash on Windows, and as 
>> Magnus Henoch saw on NetBSD/powerpc also (though we don't have a 
>> stack trace for that crash, so can't tell for sure it is crashing in 
>> the same place).
> The following patch seems to fix the problem, does it look correct to 
> others who might understand ralloc.c and buffer_swap_text better than 
> I do?

Sorry, once more with context: