Re: Emacs Windows NT crashes when loading/evaluating term/w32-win

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@altavista.net>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:41:49 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> 
> > > From: Christoph Conrad <cc@cli.de>
> > > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:29:06 +0100
> > > 
> > > 
> > > (require 'w32-win "term/w32-win")      => crash
> > > (load "c:/emacs/lisp/term/w32-win")    => crash
> > > (load "c:/emacs/lisp/term/w32-win.el") => crash
> > > C-x C-f w32-win.el <RET> M-x eval-buffer <RET => crash
> > 
> > I cannot reproduce that here.
> 
> If you are using the CVS version, I think I fixed this already.

No, I don't use the CVS version.

> > > BTW: w32-win doesn't get preloaded when starting GNU Emacs on Windows
> > > NT
> > 
> > Really?
> 
> No. The crash is caused by loading w32-win.el a second time. I don't
> remember the exact details, but I think it involved the face cache
> being cleared by a function that was called from there.

Sorry, I'm not following: are you saying that stock Emacs 21.1
compiled for Windows _always_ fails in this manner?  If so, how come
my copy works?

If it only fails sometimes, there should be some specific cause for
that.  Perhaps if Christoph knew what that cause might be, he could
work around it in the meantime, so as to be able to use NTEmacs until
the fixed version is released.