Subject: bug#18463: play-sound crashes emacs if file does not exist

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:50:45 +0300

> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 03:59:13 -0500
> From: Mario Valencia <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Log Name: Application 
> Source: Application Error 
> Date: 9/13/2014 3:55:12 a. m. 
> Event ID:. 1,000 
> Task Category: (100) 
> Level: Error 
> Keywords: Classic 
> User: Not available 
> Computer: Lenovo-PC 
> Description: 
> Name of application errors: emacs.exe Version: 24.3.0.0, time stamp: 0x51461ed8 
> Faulting module name: emacs.exe Version: 24.3.0.0, time stamp: 0x51461ed8 
> Exception code: 0x40000015 
> Offset errors: 0x000c5847 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
According to this, Emacs tried to display the Abort dialog box, and
crashed while trying.  You didn't see the Abort dialog, did you?

Maybe there's some Windows 8 specific problem in displaying that
dialog.  Of course, the main question is why did Emacs at all tried to
display the Abort dialog...