Re: Stack size on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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

Re: Stack size on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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: > >>On 19/08/2013 6:49 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > >>>One thing I don't understand, though: shouldn't a stack overflow > >>>normally manifest as a seg fault when trying to acc

Re: Stack size on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-08-19 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 19/08/2013 7:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 19 07:04, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 19/08/2013 6:49 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: One thing I don't understand, though: shouldn't a stack overflow normally manifest as a seg fault when trying to access the invalid addresses, rather than silent memory

Re: Stack size on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 07:04, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 19/08/2013 6:49 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > >One thing I don't understand, though: shouldn't a stack overflow > >normally manifest as a seg fault when trying to access the invalid > >addresses, rather than silent memory corruption? That would be helpful. >

Re: Stack size on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-08-19 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 19/08/2013 6:49 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 19/08/2013 5:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 16 16:49, Ken Brown wrote: The problem that has been discussed at length in the thread "64-bit emacs crashes a lot" appears to have been solved on the emacs-devel list. (I say "appears to" because

Re: Stack size on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-08-19 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 19/08/2013 5:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 16 16:49, Ken Brown wrote: The problem that has been discussed at length in the thread "64-bit emacs crashes a lot" appears to have been solved on the emacs-devel list. (I say "appears to" because I'm waiting for Ryan to confirm this.) The

Re: Stack size on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-08-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/19/2013 5:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 16 16:49, Ken Brown wrote: The problem that has been discussed at length in the thread "64-bit emacs crashes a lot" appears to have been solved on the emacs-devel list. (I say "appears to" because I'm waiting for Ryan to confirm this.) The p

Re: Stack size on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 16:49, Ken Brown wrote: > The problem that has been discussed at length in the thread "64-bit > emacs crashes a lot" appears to have been solved on the emacs-devel > list. (I say "appears to" because I'm waiting for Ryan to confirm > this.) The problem went away for me when I built emac

Re: Stack size on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-08-16 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 16/08/2013 4:49 PM, Ken Brown wrote: The problem that has been discussed at length in the thread "64-bit emacs crashes a lot" appears to have been solved on the emacs-devel list. (I say "appears to" because I'm waiting for Ryan to confirm this.) WJFFM so far (fingers crossed!) The problem