Re: emacs oddity

[Doug Lewan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner cygwin.com] On
> Behalf Of Max Polk
> Sent: Tuesday, 2014 May 20 19:58
> To: Cygwin list
> Subject: emacs oddity
> 
> I've been noticing the background timer giving odd messages from emacs-
> w32 once in a while such as the following when not touching the
> keyboard and the editor is idle.:
> 
> seconds-to-time: Arithmetic range error: "round", -0.0e+NaN
> seconds-to-time: Arithmetic range error: "round", 0.0
> 
> The stack dump of a recent emacs crash report on this list seemed to be
> in background timer code.  Maybe we found something.

I've posted a few times about crashes I've been getting with emacs
(emacs-X 24.3 under CYGWIN, not emacs-w32) since late last year.

I've been having a very hard time getting any good information on these crashes,
but the most common piece of evidence that I've had has been timer errors.
I've seen errors about (seconds-to-time) like you, but others as well.
Things like this:
    time-add: Wrong type argument: vectorp, [type high low micro pico 0 1 2 3 
encode-time-value]
are also common. (And, well, that looks like a vector to me.)

Perhaps we have found something. If so, I'd love to get it resolved,
but it's been very elusive.

,Douglas
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