On Aug 19 14:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 19 07:43, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > On 19/08/2013 7:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Aug 19 07:04, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > >>So maybe emacs just had the incredibly bad luck to alloca() a large > > >>buffer right at end-of-stack and then somehow managed to skip over > > >>the 4 guard pages when accessing it? > > >That's unlikely since alloca is designed to probe the stack in 4K > > >steps. And STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW is translated to a SEGV by Cygwin's > > >exception handler. > > ... and yet somehow emacs managed to get around that protection > > (unintentially), leading to all that fun over the last week. What > > went wrong? > > Good question. I don't know.
And then again, Emacs is not exactly an STC for *any* problem... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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