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

[Michel de Ruiter]

> >> > 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/

Alright then. The unpatched version has the same bug after all.
I guess I should send the bug to address@hidden myself.

Aside: I had to eval-region the setq, for set-variable doesn't find 
w32-downcase-file-names.

Groente, Michel.