Subject: bug#17526: 24.3.90; Crash in Cygwin-w32 build

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 05:47:27 +0300

> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 17:45:41 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
> CC: [email-masked]
> 
> Also, I don't always get a chance to attach gdb.  In other words,
> emacs just dies with a SEGV, but apparently without calling
> emacs_abort.

That might mean Emacs gets a fatal exception that gets handled by the
top-level exception handler.  Running under GDB to begin with should
avoid this nuisance (which AFAIK is new with Windows Vista and later).