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Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:58:54 +0300
- Subject: Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
Again, please move this discussion to emacs-devel.
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:35:54 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>
> 1. Invoke 'emacs-nox -Q' in mintty.
>
> 2. M-x compile C-a C-k ls RET
>
> 3. C-x o
>
> 4. Hit 'g' repeatedly.
>
> I got it to abort with Fatal error 6 after slightly over 100 repetitions.
>
> I then tried the same thing with emacs-X11 (running under X, not in
> mintty). I hit 'g' 200 times without a problem. I repeated this with
> emacs-w32, again 200 times without a problem.
>
> So there's a bug somewhere. But if it's an emacs bug, it's strange that
> it only occurs with emacs-nox and not with either of the GUI versions of
> emacs.
I suspect that buffer relocation might be the reason. Can you show a
backtrace from the fatal error in an unoptimized build, with the above
recipe?
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