From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) Message-Id: <10206111933.AA14460@clio.rice.edu> Subject: Re: unixy sbrk and win2k To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:33:02 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <3D062BAB.1574A379@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> from "Richard Dawe" at Jun 11, 2002 05:56:11 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > > Can you please post a SYMIFY'd traceback from that segfault? > > OK, here's what I did: > > Edit src/msdos.c to re-enable Unixy sbrk > rm -f src/temacs src/temacs.exe > make install > > Oh, I can't seem to get it to segfault now. I now have no Win2k-crash-related > patches installed. I just have a month or so old copy of DJGPP CVS. Infrequent failures may be uninitialized variables or Windows memory layout issues. There are no fixes in last month of CVS I would expect to make any changes in this behavior. > I've just put Charles's 'cli' patch for Win2k back into libc and reran 'rm -f > ...' and 'make install'. temacs doesn't crash. Okay, this sounds better. > However, in both cases Emacs kill bash on start-up, if I hold down Ctrl. > I don't like it when this kind of thing happens. I don't understand exactly what's happening. Do you mean you are launching emacs from bash, and emacs fails and takes bash with it? Does it give a crash traceback or does NTVDM just go away? Does emacs work at all? Does it work run standalone?