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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:13:05 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: mcedit stackdumps
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 04:47:37PM +0200, Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
>Hi
>
>For a few months now I've been suffering from mcedit internal error. Every
>once in a while, without any reason, mcedit stackdumps during exit
>procedure (after pressing F10 or double ESC). I got this error with
>1.5.16, then with 1.5.17 snapshots, and now with 1.5.17 as well. I haven't
>tried current snapshots yet. Should I?
>
>Debugging mcedit seems pointless as stackdumps occur on a very irregular
>basis. Can I provide any more information?
>
>I believe this might have something to do with Cygwin because:
>- similar version of mcedit works fine on a Linux box
>- before 1.5.16 (or 1.5.15, I'm not sure about that) Cygwin version worked
>fine as well
>
>$ mcedit --version
>GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1-pre2a
>
>$ uname -a
>CYGWIN_NT-5.0 duli2 1.5.17(0.129/4/2) 2005-05-25 19:38 i686 unknown
>unknown Cygwin
>
>$ cat mc.exe.stackdump
>Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=610CA032

This is indicative of a malloc corruption problem.  It is probably a problem
with mcedit itself, not cygwin.

cgf

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