bug#805: marked as done (Emacs crashes on Windows when visiting .tar.gz files)

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Your message dated Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:20:30 +0800
with message-id <49521AFE.4030105@gnu.org>
and subject line Re: bug#716: Bug in buffer-swap-text
has caused the Emacs bug report #716,
regarding Emacs crashes on Windows when visiting .tar.gz files
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> Emacs crashes on Windows when visiting .tar.gz files
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> Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:34:35 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Package: emacs,w32
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> (Filing a report for old item from FOR-RELEASE.)
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> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-06/msg01850.html
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> Initial report:
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>     Steps to reproduce:
>     1. Create a small tar file with 2 or 3 files in it
>     2. emacs -q
>     3. M-x load-library tar-mode
>     4. Open the tar file
>     You see the crash (with earlier posted stack trace)
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>     I saw another crash with the following steps:
>     1. Repeat #1, #2 from the previous scenario
>     2. Open the tar file, you will see the file listing
>     3. Position the cursor on one of the listed files and hit enter (open
>     the file in the archive)
>     You see a crash. Stack trace follows for 2nd scenario:
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> Re: bug#716: Bug in buffer-swap-text
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> Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:20:30 +0800
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> Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105)
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> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Thanks.  After your email, I thought we could just change
> > r_alloc_reset_variable to take 2 arguments: the old ptr and the
> > new ptr.  This way, you get more consistency checking.
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> I've checked in a change that does this.
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