Re: reproducible segmentation fault on cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "emacs user" <address@hidden>
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> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:03:33 -0500
> 
> I find CVS gnu emacs on cygwin to be very unstable.  when I run it
> under the debugger there is a complained on segmentation fault,
> whatever that is...  here are the instructions for reproducing this
> error message:
> 
> /usr/local/emacs/src $ gdb emacs
> GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-28-cvs (cygwin-special)
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> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
> DISPLAY = :0.0
> TERM = xterm
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x20099ea6: file emacs.c, line 454.
> Breakpoint 2 at 0x20074d08: file xterm.c, line 7790.
> (gdb) run -q --no-site-file
> Starting program: /usr/local/emacs/src/emacs.exe -q --no-site-file
> ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x7c809f62 in KERNEL32!IsBadWritePtr ()
>    from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/kernel32.dll
> (gdb) quit

Please type "bt" at this point, instead of "quit", and post the
results.  Another GDB command, "xbacktrace", would also tell important
stuff, so please type that as well and post what it prints.

Thanks for reporting this.