Re: [h-e-w] 21.3/Windows XP/Cygwin Crash

[Jason Rumney]

Jeff Finger wrote:
> The first few hits on a google search on the string
>       "windows XP" emacs 21.3 crash
> yielded the reports I was talking about. I am going to update my Cygwin and
> try again, as Peter Lee suggested.

When I do that search, I get links to some fixes for an entirely 
different problem that was fixed by Ben Key in November last year.
That problem only occurs if you build on Windows 9x and try to run
the resulting binary on Windows XP or vice-versa. Compiling and
running on the same machine would definitely not hit that bug, as
the cause was different library versions on the machine where Emacs
was compiled than where it was run.

So what you are seeing is a new, as yet unreported bug. Do not be
surprised that noone has fixed it yet.