crash on latest cygwin snapshot

[Ken Brown]

On 8/1/2012 8:29 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug  1 12:34, marco atzeri wrote:
>> On 8/1/2012 11:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> Hi Marco, Hi Ken,
>>>
>>> On Jul  2 16:43, marco atzeri wrote:
>>>> On 6/27/2012 3:46 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, Marco.  Nevermind.  I duplicated this.  No need to upload anything.
>>>>> I'm still working on it.
>>>>>
>>>>> cgf
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> it seems solved on 20120702 snapshots
>>>
>>> can you please test your crashing scenarios with the latest developer
>>> snapshot from today?  After some private discussion, cgf and I have a
>>> hunch that the underlying problem was the problem I fixed yesterday, and
>>> cgf's changes to Makefile.in on 2012-07-01 made just enough changes in
>>> code optimization so that your problem wasn't visible anymore.
>>>
>>> I reverted cgf's changes to Makefile.in and generated the today's
>>> snapshot specificially to test our hypothesis.  Please give it a try.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Corinna
>>>
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 MARCOATZERI 1.7.17s(0.262/5/3) 20120801 11:02:01
>> i686 Cygwin
>>
>> is not crashing.
>
> Thanks for the quick feedback!  Now let's see what Ken reports...

I never had a reliable way of reproducing the crash (see 
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-06/msg00464.html).  It happened 
seemingly at random, and very sporadically.  But I have the snapshot 
installed and will exercise it as much as I can.

Ken


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