GNU bug report logs - #14569
24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>

Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 00:17:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #104 received at 14569 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: 14569 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14569: 24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:04:03 +0300

> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:22:26 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
> Cc: 14569 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Unfortunately, the emacs maintainer doesn't have any idea why the recent 
> emacs changes are causing random crashes on Cygwin.  It's almost 
> impossible to catch this under gdb; and the one time it was caught, the 
> backtrace didn't make sense.  Also, the crash doesn't occur when emacs 
> is run under strace.

What are the difficulties of catching this when Emacs is run under
GDB?

P.S.  I removed the Cygwin list from the adressees, as I don't think
we have any evidence at this time that this is a Cygwin problem.
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