Cygwin crashes not fixed? (was Re: releasing 21.4 as stable)
Henry S. Thompson writes:
I'm concerned that there's been no follow-up to either my [1]
or a
similar [2] report of crashes resulting from stack overflows
underneath re_search_2. It would be nice if these could be fixed
before we declare 21.4 to be stable.
Thanks
ht
[1] http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200206/msg00005.html
[2] http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200206/msg00191.html
This looks like a stack overflow, something that is easily
triggered by the regular expression search code and its use
of alloca() to grab large blocks of memory off the stack. If
you can increase your stacksize under Cygwin, try doubling it
and see if it makes the problem go away. XEmacs could be
made to do this for the user, or XEmacs could be compiled
with REGEX_MALLOC by default in environments that have an
insuffieciently large default stack size.