GNU bug report logs - #7190
Crash in menus on w32

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Packages: w32, emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 7170

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7190: Crash in menus on w32
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:14:04 +0200

> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:09:24 +0200
> Cc: 7190 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >> >> I just meant adding some DebPrint statements and recompile.
> >> >
> >> > I wouldn't know where to add these statements, because we have no idea
> >> > what is causing the memory corruption which leads to the crash.
> >>
> >> I would assume that is all happens within the menus.
> >
> > No, it happens within Emacs.  We allocate the memory that we free when
> > Emacs crashes.
> 
> I mean that the failing code is among the code handling menus in Emacs.

Yes.  But how does that help with adding debug prints?  The code that
handles menus is spread across several nontrivial functions, and we
have no idea which of them causes the problem and where.
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