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24.3; Emacs 24.3 release won't compile on Windows with the msvc toolchain

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From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 李丁 <iamliding <at> gmail.com>, 13939 <13939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#13939: 24.3; Emacs 24.3 release won't compile on Windows with the msvc toolchain
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:13:09 +0100

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> 2. GC_MARK_STACK is 1 by default in config.nt, but this default is broken
> > with the msvc toolchain.  When temacs started to dump,
> > it immediately exited with the message `Invalid function: "DEAD"'. Eli
> had
> > previously told me (in #12878) to see bug #13070, but it didn't solve the
> > problem. When I tried to change GC_MARK_STACK to 0, Emacs compiled fine.
> So
> > there must be something wrong about the GCPROS_NOOPS way of marking stack
> > under the vc compiler, maybe someone familiar with the garbage collector
> > can fix it. (MinGW gcc is ok with the default)
>
> Not only MinGW, but I believe Fabrice (CC'ed) also builds Emacs with
> MSVC and uses GC_MARK_STACK.  Fabrice, can you please comment on this?
>

I can confirm that with GC_MARK_STACK=0, 24.3 does compile with the MS
compiler.
With GC_MARK_STACK=1, 24.3 doesn't compile, but the current trunk (well, my
copy, but which is quite close) does compile, 32bits and 64bits.
It may be a bit hairy to find out why.

Fabrice

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