Re: [h-e-w] Crash in multibyte_chars_in_text

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Michel de Ruiter <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I just experienced an Emacs crash, and I can reproduce consistently. I'm
>> unsure whether it's specific to the patched build and I don't have the time 
>> to
>> check, so I post here to verify. It might already be fixed, as I use the
>> version: GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6002) of 2009-11-04 on 
>> LENNART-
>> 69DE564 (patched)
>> >
>> > Steps:
>> > - set find-file-existing-other-name to t
>> > - have "U:\Privé\ab" as the current working directory
>> > - press Ctrl-x Ctrl-f c d
>> >
>> > On typing the 'd' (or whatever key you type there) Emacs crashes.
>> >
>> > I tried (Cygwin) gdb as suggested by the Emacs crash handler and created 
>> > the
>> stack trace below.
>> >
>> > Hope this helps...?
>>
>> Thanks for the bug report. Could you please try the latest from the
>> test area here:
>>
>> http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/DL/EmacsW32/test/
>>
>> The latest one is the one from 2011-02-17 (i.e.
>> Emacs-24-BzrP110217-EmacsW32-1.58.exe)
>
> Tested: same crash!
>
> But I noticed that you need to set w32-downcase-file-names to t as well. So 
> the minimal .emacs file to experience this crash would be:
>
> (setq
>  find-file-existing-other-name  t
>  w32-downcase-file-names        t
>  )
>
> Have fun with it! :-)
>
> Groente, Michel.

I will try to have fun with it ;-\

But could you please try an unpatched version here too and see if you
can reproduce it there too :

  http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/