Re: Fwd: Re: Strange gdb backtraces on 64-bit Cygwin

2014-09-23 Thread Markus Hoenicka
At 2014-09-23 16:02, Ken Brown was heard to say: On 9/23/2014 9:23 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote: At 2014-09-23 14:31, Ken Brown was heard to say: So I think it's pretty clear that the strange backtrace I observed with gdb-7.6.50-4 on 64-bit Cygwin was indeed due to a deficiency in gdb. I hope th

Re: Fwd: Re: Strange gdb backtraces on 64-bit Cygwin

2014-09-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/23/2014 9:23 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote: At 2014-09-23 14:31, Ken Brown was heard to say: So I think it's pretty clear that the strange backtrace I observed with gdb-7.6.50-4 on 64-bit Cygwin was indeed due to a deficiency in gdb. I hope that people who have been experiencing emacs crashes

Fwd: Re: Strange gdb backtraces on 64-bit Cygwin

2014-09-23 Thread Markus Hoenicka
At 2014-09-23 14:31, Ken Brown was heard to say: So I think it's pretty clear that the strange backtrace I observed with gdb-7.6.50-4 on 64-bit Cygwin was indeed due to a deficiency in gdb. I hope that people who have been experiencing emacs crashes with "impossible" backtraces will update to g

Re: Strange gdb backtraces on 64-bit Cygwin

2014-09-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/17/2014 5:21 PM, Ken Brown wrote: There have been many bug reports involving crashes or assertion failures in emacs-X11 or emacs-w32 on 64-bit Cygwin. Many of these reports include gdb backtraces that don't make sense. The one I'm looking at right now is emacs bug#17753. I'll try to make

Re: Strange gdb backtraces on 64-bit Cygwin

2014-09-17 Thread Markus Hoenicka
At 2014-09-17 23:21, Ken Brown was heard to say: There have been many bug reports involving crashes or assertion failures in emacs-X11 or emacs-w32 on 64-bit Cygwin. Many of these reports include gdb backtraces that don't make sense. The one I'm looking at right now is emacs bug#17753. I'll tr

Strange gdb backtraces on 64-bit Cygwin

2014-09-17 Thread Ken Brown
There have been many bug reports involving crashes or assertion failures in emacs-X11 or emacs-w32 on 64-bit Cygwin. Many of these reports include gdb backtraces that don't make sense. The one I'm looking at right now is emacs bug#17753. I'll try to make this email self-contained, but anyone