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Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 11:08:18 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: emacs under w2k
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Hello.

Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> OK, now I've got something more: the patch below moves ds alias base
> setting into sbrk16.asm, and the results have changed:

I've tested this path on Windows NT 4 SP5 under VMware 3.1, using a snapshot
of Emacs CVS from a few weeks ago plus a reasonably up-to-date DJGPP CVS
snapshot. I realise that this patch isn't the final one, but I thought it
might be useful to try it out on Windows NT.
 
> 1) Emacs _without_ unixy sbrk (which previously was failing at
> startup) now works like a charm - not a single glitch yet.

My new build of Emacs does not crash when I hold Ctrl at start-up. I haven't
used it extensively. I'll let you know if I hit any problems.

> 2) Emacs _with_ unixy sbrk (which previously was failing randomly),
> and any program which sets that bit now fail consistently at startup,
> sometimes with SIGSEGV, sometimes taking down NTVDM.

I seem to get SIGSEGVs only.

Eli, BTW config.bat in Emacs CVS does 'cd lispintro' at one point. This does
not work if you've extracted the sources using SFN. (I took a bzip2'd tar file
from my CVS checkout of Emacs and then extracted on my NT "box".) I suggest
that the config.bat script checks for a 'lispintro' or 'lispintr' directory.

Let me know if there any other patches you'd like me to try out on NT.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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