Re: Building the igc branch on MS-Windows

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Isn't the downside that GC will never function again, and become unsafe
>> to invoke, after a call to igc_postmortem?  With the result that the
>> debuggee will not be usable as an editor, or indeed operate reliably at
>> all, after bt is called?
>
> Even if that is true, how does this matter after Emacs crashed?
> Especially if that happened due to MPS assertion violation?

I'm sometimes using xbacktrace when Emacs hasn't crashed yet. For
example, when I'm at a breakpoint and want to see where I come from.
Then I might n, s, c etc.