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From: Andy Piper <andyp@bea.com>
Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann ),
	dmkarr@earthlink.net (David M. Karr),
	xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: How to help debug numerous crashes of 21.4.4 on Windows?
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 19:00:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010903190017.00b43aa0@san-francisco.beasys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15252.11842.757706.365194@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

Can you point me at the 21.5 change that is supposed to deal with this?

Thanks

andy

At 10:28 AM 9/4/01 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "JMK" == Jody Klymak <jklymak@OCE.ORST.EDU> writes:
>
>     JMK> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>     >> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
>     >>
>     >>> This is a known bug, it's the reason that using 21.4.4 is
>     >>> deprecated on Windows.
>     >> Ah!  Well, everything is clear, then, I think.
>
>     JMK> Yes, except I'm using 21.4.3...
>
>Right.  It's not just in 21.4.4, but something about 21.4.4 means it
>gets tickled far more often.  Apparently Jody always gets clobbered in
>21.4.3 but most other people didn't.
>
>See the thread "Call Stack for Window..." starting around July 24 for
>more details, but basically it's a problem that a structure containing
>live Lisp pointers was getting collected too early.  Messing with GC
>is inherently destabilizing; I'm not going to apply patches
>willy-nilly.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-04  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <86u1ylpe0a.fsf@earthlink.net>
2001-09-02 20:33 ` Jody Klymak
2001-09-02 22:10   ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-02 23:57     ` David M. Karr
2001-09-03  0:58       ` Jody Klymak
2001-09-03 10:19         ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-03  1:04     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2001-09-03 10:20       ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-03 15:56         ` Jody Klymak
2001-09-04  1:28           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2001-09-04  2:00             ` Andy Piper [this message]
2001-09-04  3:08               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2001-09-04  3:49                 ` Andy Piper
2001-09-17  4:35                 ` Andy Piper
2001-09-03 17:35       ` David M. Karr
2001-09-03 16:35   ` Andy Piper

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