[h-e-w] Emacs 21.1 crashing on Win2k

[Richard Y. Kim]

GNU/Emacs 21.1 works fine on my w2k.
I compiled it as follows:

1. Start cmd.exe. Then do steps 2 through 6 within that shell.

2. Run msvs/VC98/Bin/VCVARS32.BAT so that environment variables for
   MSVC are setup.

3. Unpack the tarball using cygwin tar via

   tar zxf emacs-21.1.tar.gz
   tar zxf leim-21.1.tar.gz

4. cd emacs-21.1/nt

5. nmake -f makefile.nt all INSTALL_DIR=c:\emacs-21.1

6. nmake -f makefile.nt install INSTALL_DIR=c:\emacs-21.1

7. Above does not install the emacs-lisp source files. 
   So I installed them using cygwin bash:

   cd ../lisp
   find . -name '*.el' -exec cp -p {} c:/emacs-21.1/lisp/{} ;

Emacs 21.1 has not yet crashed once on me for two days
depite the fact that I was able to crash all previous
pretests within a few minutes simply by doing bunch of
ediff's in the *cvs* buffer created by "M-x cvs-examine".


>>>>> "KI" == Konstantin Ignatiev <address@hidden> writes:
    KI> 
    KI> Just want to share my experience - I tried to build 21.1 under
    KI> Win2k, VC 6.0; Emacs builds OK, starts fine, but crashes on any
    KI> attempt to scroll (e.g., using scroll bars, moving the cursor, or
    KI> resizing the window). This is the stack:
    KI> 
    KI> next_element_from_string(it * 0x0082f344) line 4576 + 12 bytes
    KI> get_next_display_element(it * 0x0082f344) line 4164
    KI> init_from_display_pos(it * 0x0082f344, window * 0x00000000, display_pos 
* 0x00000000) line 1923 + 6 bytes
    KI> try_window_reusing_current_matrix(window * 0x0144ec00) line 10866 + 20 
bytes
    KI> redisplay_window(int 1095036416, int 1) line 10347 + 49 bytes
    KI> redisplay_internal(int 0) line 8846 + 13 bytes
    KI> redisplay() line 8230 + 7 bytes
    KI> read_char(int 1, int 2, int * 0x0082fcac, int 287637508, int * 
0x0082fce4) line 2274
    KI> read_key_sequence(int * 0x0082fd88, int 30, int 287637508, int 0, int 
1, int 1) line 8182 + 36 bytes
    KI> command_loop_1() line 1441 + 55 bytes
    KI> internal_condition_case(int (void)* 0x0100d423 command_loop_1(void), 
int 287747316, int (void)* 0x0100d0d1 cmd_error(void)) line 1268
    KI> command_loop_2() line 1241 + 21 bytes
    KI> internal_catch(int 287703764, int (void)* 0x0100d32b 
command_loop_2(void), int 287637508) line 1030 + 6 bytes
    KI> command_loop() line 1225
    KI> recursive_edit_1() line 950 + 5 bytes
    KI> Frecursive_edit() line 1007
    KI> main() line 1547 + 5 bytes
    KI> EMACS! mainCRTStartup + 180 bytes
    KI> KERNEL32! 77e992a6()
    KI> 
    KI> If you do not scroll, it will not crash, but it is apparent there
    KI> is something wrong with the display: model line blinks on and
    KI> off, there are two black vertical stripes on both sides on the
    KI> window, etc.
    KI> 
    KI> Apparently, either I am doing something terribly wrong, or my
    KI> configuration is not standard in some way, or 21.1 is seriously
    KI> broken on Windows.
    KI> 
    KI> I didn't investigate any further, since I am very happy with
    KI> 20.7; just wanted to experiment with the new version.
    KI> 
    KI> Konstantin.
    KI> 
    KI> 
    KI>