Subject: bug#18438: 24.4.50; assertion failed in bidi.c

From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:18:54 -0400

A Cygwin bug was just found (and fixed) that could cause corruption of the flags 
register, as Eli suspected:

   https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-10/msg00397.html

Aidan, could you try the latest Cygwin snapshot and see if that fixes the problem?

Ken