bug#18769: 24.4; assertion failed in emacs-24.4 on cygwin x86_64

[Stefan Kangas]

Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> writes:

> On 19/10/2014 20:18, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 10/19/2014 2:54 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 10/19/2014 1:47 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> Could be one more of those unexplained assertion violations, see bug
>>>> #18438.  And if that's so, then the problem isn't limited to the
>>>> Cygwin-w32 builds.
>>>
>>> Right.  So I can stop wasting my time (and yours) by looking for
>>> something
>>> specific to that build.  But the problem does seem limited to 64-bit
>>> Cygwin, FWIW.
>>
>> Jon, have you by any chance tried the latest Cygwin snapshot to see if
>> that makes a difference?  I think there have been major changes in
>> exception handling (64 bit only), which may or may not be relevant.
>
> I've been trying with the 20141017 snapshot and your emacs-24.4-0 build for 
> the
> past couple of days, but unfortunately I still get 'impossible' asserts.

That was almost 6 years ago.  Are you still seeing this on a recent
version of Emacs, such as the recently released version 27.1?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas