bug#9132: 24.0.50; bootstrap failure on windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
> Cc: 9132@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:45:10 -0400
> 
> > * Eli Zaretskii <ryvm@tah.bet> [2011-07-21 22:10:20 +0300]:
> >
> >> From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
> >> Cc: 9132@debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:30:15 -0400
> >> 
> >> 0103C605  emacs.exe:0103C605  make_uninit_multibyte_string  alloc.c:2401
> >
> > What does this line say in your sources?
> 
>   if (nchars < 0)
>     abort ();
> ======>>>>>>>>>>>>  if (!nbytes)
>     return empty_multibyte_string;

I don't believe this line can crash.

If you run the command that crashed by hand, does it also crash?  If
it does, can you run it under GDB?