Subject: bug#29040: Emacs 25 hangs on windows arbitrarily during search of a unicode file

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 01:48:30 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If you feel strongly
> about getting rid of those 2 lines, I guess it's okay to try that on
> master.

I don't feel that strongly. I left the code alone, and merely deleted the 
comment about the Alpha MSVC (which is obsolete and no longer relevant).