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Subject: |
Emacs crashes on Windows when visiting .tar.gz files |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:34:35 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Package: emacs,w32
(Filing a report for old item from FOR-RELEASE.)
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-06/msg01850.html
Initial report:
Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a small tar file with 2 or 3 files in it
2. emacs -q
3. M-x load-library tar-mode
4. Open the tar file
You see the crash (with earlier posted stack trace)
I saw another crash with the following steps:
1. Repeat #1, #2 from the previous scenario
2. Open the tar file, you will see the file listing
3. Position the cursor on one of the listed files and hit enter (open
the file in the archive)
You see a crash. Stack trace follows for 2nd scenario:
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Subject: |
Re: bug#716: Bug in buffer-swap-text |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:20:30 +0800 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) |
Stefan Monnier wrote:
Thanks. After your email, I thought we could just change
r_alloc_reset_variable to take 2 arguments: the old ptr and the
new ptr. This way, you get more consistency checking.
I've checked in a change that does this.
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