Subject: bug#12544: -r110296..110297 causes random crashes in optimized build on Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:47:59 +0200

> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:37:08 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> To be absolutely sure the crashes have nothing to do with the timers
> introduced in revision 110287, can you please try this:
> 
>   . comment out the line that defines HAVE_SETITIMER in nt/config.nt
>   . ifdef away the entire body of 'alarm' (in w32proc.c), except its
>     last line, which returns to the caller the value of its argument
>   . build Emacs and see if the crashes go away

Actually, with the trunk post-r110319, the second bullet is
unnecessary.