Re: [h-e-w] Current word on binaries

[Jason Rumney]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Since it is deep within the byte code interpreter it is difficult to
>     find what happened to get get the binding stack in that state.
> 
> You could disassemble the byte code and see if it is valid.

I think we have pinpointed the cause. The .elc files were being
loaded as text files (on Windows this means dropping \r and
truncating on Ctrl-Z) due to a change in the defaults for GCC on
Windows sometime between 2.95 and 3.2. We already have a fix in CVS,
but it was not in 21.3.

We can either build the 21.3 release with an older version of GCC, or
patch the sources and release a 21.3a for Windows as suggested by Eli.