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24.3.90; Crash in Cygwin-w32 build

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From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17526: 24.3.90; Crash in Cygwin-w32 build
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 15:53:59 -0400

On 5/19/2014 3:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 15:19:24 -0400
>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
>> CC: 17526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> On 5/19/2014 11:18 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 08:30:49 -0400
>>>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
>>>>
>>>> I just got a crash with the following backtrace:
>>>>
>>>> #0  0x000007fefd5f3ca3 in KERNELBASE!DebugBreak ()
>>>>      from /c/Windows/system32/KERNELBASE.dll
>>>> #1  0x000000010061a344 in emacs_abort ()
>>>>       at /usr/src/debug/emacs-24.3.90-1/src/w32fns.c:8460
>>>> #2  0x000000010043616a in move_it_to (it=0x4284e0, to_charpos=-1, to_x=-1,
>>>>       to_y=-1, to_vpos=10, op=4)
>>>>       at /usr/src/debug/emacs-24.3.90-1/src/xdisp.c:9198
>>>> #3  0x0000000100436fc2 in move_it_by_lines (it=0x4284e0, dvpos=10)
>>>>       at /usr/src/debug/emacs-24.3.90-1/src/xdisp.c:9490
>>>
>>> That's a weird crash.  Any chance of a reproducible recipe?
>>
>> No, I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary -- just scrolling
>> through a plain text file.
>
> Well, maybe try scrolling more than usual in the future, perhaps you
> will hit it again.

I'll try.

>> There have been other weird crashes reported
>> for the Cygwin-w32 build, such as this one that was sent to the Cygwin
>> mailing list this morning:
>>
>>     https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00396.html
>
> That crash makes no sense, arithcompare can only abort if its 3rd
> argument is something other than the 6 enumeration values.  I suspect
> that was an optimized build (although I see no "optimized out" values
> in the backtrace).

No, it was an unoptimized build, but there's apparently something wrong 
with the backtrace.  I don't know what could cause that.

Ken

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