Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by
	smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication
X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVZIv3e2otor/hNz5JpM4B02rboRbhJ5sbcm1sB0a+r8kA6UEwjKPPX0
Message-ID: <3F1EC726.5040609@cygwin.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:34:30 -0400
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: "Jeffery B. Rancier" <jeff DOT rancier AT softechnics DOT com>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: DLL 1.3.22 - etags 5.5.4 fails on XP Pro
References: <u7k69kw5u DOT fsf AT softechnics DOT com> <u3cgxkvhm DOT fsf AT softechnics DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <u3cgxkvhm.fsf@softechnics.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Jeffery B. Rancier wrote:

> jeff DOT rancier AT softechnics DOT com (Jeffery B. Rancier) writes:
> 
> It appears the list maintainer zapped my text?  Here it is again:
> 
> 
> I installed ctags 5.5 today, after having problems with the Gnus Emacs
> etags not recognizing my cygwin mounts.
> 
> It seems to work OK, but three times I received the following Windows
> error dialog:
> 
> ,----
> | 16 bit MS-DOS subsystem
> | 
> | h:\usr\pkg\cygwin\bin\etags.exe
> | The NTVDM CPU has encountered an ilegal instruction.
> | CS:06fc IP:a97d OP:ff ff ff ff ff
> | Choose 'Close' to terminate the application
> `----
> 
> FWIW, it's NTEmacs whose calling etags, and it doesn't always happen.
> 
> I checked the mailing list archives, back to point where ctags 5.5 was
> released, and didn't see any error like this.
> 
> Is this a bug?  Is it debuggable?

It's not a bug, unless you consider a Windows program not being able to
understand Cygwin symbolic links a bug.  I don't think there is much
chance of changing Windows to permit all applications a proper understanding
though.

I'm surprised you don't see this all of the time when invoked in NTEmacs.
Regardless, it would never work, even if it doesn't complain.  Use
Cygwin's emacs, ctags directly, or some emacs lisp wizardry to resolve
this issue.





-- 
Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9889 - FAX
Holliston, MA 01746


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/