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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" =3D=3D Jody Klymak <jklymak@OCE.ORST.EDU> writes:
>
>     JMK> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) 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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