Re: [h-e-w] Hard space and w32-downcase-file-names: crash

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michel de Ruiter <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:49:45 +0000
> Accept-Language: nl-NL, en-GB, en-US
> 
> I have found a bug specific to NTEmacs. I'm not sure whether I should report 
> it to bug-gnu-emacs instead. I thought I should try here first.
> 
> The easiest way to reproduce the crash is:
> - start emacs -Q
> - type M-:
> - type (setq w32-downcase-file-names t)
> - type RET
> - type C-x C-f
> - type C-q 2 4 0 RET
> This shows the "Emacs Abort Dialog" ("A fatal error has occurred!").
> 
> I don't have gdb to further debug this.
> This is GNU Emacs 24.0.96.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-04-29 on MARVIN, 
> on Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 (x64, version 6.1.7601). I currently don't have 
> time to try any newer build.
> 
> Anyone (Eli?), please take it from here.

I fixed this (as well as a few other similar bugs in other file
primitives).

However, Drew is right: this should be reported via
"M-x report-emacs-bug", which makes sure the bug is recorded and makes
it easier to refer to it when committing the fix.