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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:14:27 -0400
From: Ryan Johnson <ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot
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On 15/08/2013 6:48 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 15/08/2013 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 8/15/2013 5:58 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>>> On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>>>>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>>>>>> ___chkstk_ms () at
>>>>>> /usr/src/debug/gcc-4.8.1-1/libgcc/config/i386/cygwin.S:146
>>>>>
>>>>> You're not using the latest gcc, which is 4.8.1-3.  Any chance that
>>>>> that's your problem?
>>>> Heh. I actually do have the latest gcc, but somehow the upgrade didn't
>>>> pick up the debug package (which showed as not installed in 
>>>> setup.exe).
>>>> I have manually upgraded it now.
>>>
>>> OK.  But doesn't the above show that the crash is occurring in gcc, not
>>> emacs?
>>>
>>>> BTW, how do you compile emacs from the sources given? I tried 
>>>> untarring
>>>> and patching, but I get the message:
>>>>> configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to `x86_64-unknown-cygwin'
>>>>> systems.
>>>>> Check `etc/MACHINES' for recognized configuration names.
>>>
>>> One of the patches changes configure.ac, so you have to run autoreconf
>>> after applying it.
>>
>> Or it might be 'autoreconf -I m4'.
>
> Something is still wrong:
>
> $ cd /scratch
> $ tar xaf /usr/src/emacs-24.3.tar.xz
> $ patch -p1 </usr/src/emacs-24.3-5.cygwin.patch
> patching file emacs-24.3/CYGWIN-PATCHES/emacs-X11.postinstall
> patching file emacs-24.3/CYGWIN-PATCHES/emacs-X11.preremove
> patching file emacs-24.3/CYGWIN-PATCHES/emacs-w32.postinstall
> patching file emacs-24.3/CYGWIN-PATCHES/emacs-w32.preremove
> patching file emacs-24.3/CYGWIN-PATCHES/emacs.postinstall
> patching file emacs-24.3/CYGWIN-PATCHES/emacs.preremove
Ah, it seems there's a /usr/src/configure.ac.patch that happens to 
belong to emacs...

... but unfortunately it seems that -fsanitize is only supported on 
Linux and Darwin right now, so there's little reason to build emacs 
unless you could use some particular information that a debug build 
provides. Rats.

Ryan


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