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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2014 14:00:40 +0200
From:	Markus Hoenicka <markus DOT hoenicka AT mhoenicka DOT de>
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Am 2014-05-21 13:46, schrieb Ken Brown:
> On 5/21/2014 3:13 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>> At 2014-05-21 03:42, Ken Brown was heard to say:
>>> On 5/20/2014 7:57 PM, Max Polk wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Have you tried the test release
>>> (https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00047.html)?
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I haven't followed this thread in all its gory details, but I recall
>> that only emacs-w32 was reported to have problems. I have noticed 
>> random
>> crashes and weird messages without prior user actions in emacs-x11 
>> since
>> I moved from WinXP + Cygwin x86 to Win7 + Cygwin x86_64 a few weeks 
>> ago.
>> None of these problems ever occurred on either FreeBSD (amd64, Emacs 
>> 24)
>> or Debian (amd64, Emacs 23). I just thought I'd mention this because 
>> the
>> problem does not seem to be limited to the -w32 build of Emacs. I've
>> preserved the odd messages on three separate occasions:
>> 
>> Args out of range: [t 21335 39727 373923 0.5 
>> blink-cursor-timer-function
>> nil nil 100000], 4
>> 
>> Invalid function: #[(timer) "^H >^H
>>> ^[\211^203^Q^@Ã…^H        \"^Q^K\203^Z^@Ã…^H
>> \"^R^L\206^_^@^K*\207" [timer timer-list timer-idle-list cell2 cell1
>> delq] 4 2245674]
>> 
>> timer-relative-time: Wrong type argument: vectorp, [t1 time high low
>> micro pico nil 3 0 2 ...]
>> 
>> All of them indicate timer related problems as Max pointed out. I do 
>> not
>> have meaningful backtraces of the crashes at this time because the
>> installed emacs-x11 seems to lack debug symbols.
> 
> You have to install emacs-debuginfo in order to get the symbols.
> 

Thanks, I've installed it now just in case. Until now, no crashes or 
weird messages with emacs-X11-24.3.90-1 yet...

regards,
Markus

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