GNU bug report logs - #12544
-r110296..110297 causes random crashes in optimized build on Windows

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Message #29 received at 12544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> supelec.fr>
Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 12544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12544: -r110296..110297 causes random crashes in optimized
	build on Windows
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:41:44 +0200

> From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> supelec.fr>
> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 13:32:13 +0200
> Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 12544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > I think I fixed this in trunk revision 110318.  The problem was that
> > the call to term_ntproc, as part of shutting down Emacs, deleted the
> > critical sections used by the timer threads and by setitimer, so any
> > call to setitimer after that would use an invalid critical section
> > object.  I now make sure any calls to setitimer after deleting the
> > critical sections will return immediately without doing anything.
> >
> >
> The explanation seems fine. The experimentation too : I did a bootstrap
> (64bits full optimization). It ran smoothly.

Great, thanks for testing.

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