Re: SIGSEGV in parse_str_as_multibyte in MINGW compiled emacs

[Kim F. Storm]

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So it seems related to a fix I made yesterday...
It gets a nonsense string length, but I don't see how...

>
> I select a zipped file in dired mode and try to view one of the files
> it contains. Emacs then segfaults. This is repeatable. The backtrace
> follows:

Pls. try commands below:

xbacktrace
pp Vmode_line_unwind_vector

> #0  parse_str_as_multibyte (str=0x17b0a00 "", len=9865842, nchars=0x82f054,
>     nbytes=0x82f058) at charset.c:1491
> #1  0x0103a589 in make_string (contents=0x17b0a00 "", nbytes=9865842)
>     at alloc.c:2334
> #2  0x010836f3 in x_consider_frame_title (frame=25644036) at xdisp.c:8380

up 2
p len
p title_start
p mode_line_noprop_buf
p mode_line_noprop_ptr
pp fmt

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk