Emacs-w32... still crashing...

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu May 22 01:11:00 GMT 2014


On 5/21/2014 4:14 PM, Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote:
> It just crashed on me again, after a couple of days
> of no crashes at all. The versions of everything
> are unchanged since my last message. But this
> time, and this is new, I have not seen it before,
> it did not give me the gdb option. Instead it just
> crashed and said: "Segmentation fault (core dumped)..."
> I have the core, though I don't know if it's going to
> be of much use to anyone. I have been reading
> mail, scrolling through the messages, with rmail at the
> time.

You only get the prompt to attach gdb if the exception is caught by 
emacs, which then calls emacs_abort.  If the exception is handled at a 
higher level, this won't happen.  The best thing is to just start emacs 
under gdb to begin with.

Ken


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