Re: Wrong display and hang with zero-length overlay display string

[Ralf Angeli]

* Eli Zaretskii (2005-06-11) writes:

>> From: Ralf Angeli <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:52:54 +0200
>> 
>> On MS Windows the following code will generate a buffer which displays
>> "aaa" and after that a lot of whitespace.  If you scroll around a bit
>> Emacs will hang with 100% CPU usage.  Typing `C-g' does not help.
[...]
> When was your binary compiled?

I checked this with an Emacs provided by nqmacs.sf.net which is from
end of January and with one from crasseux.com which is from
mid-April.  Both showed this behavior.

> I don't see this problem with today's CVS.

That'll teach me to report bugs based on outdated binaries.  To my
excuse I can say that I am using Windows only for gaming purposes and
therefore haven't had the development tools installed, but
nevertheless wanted to help a user who reported the bug on an AUCTeX
mailing list.

> Could you please try the current codebase and see if the problem
> is still there?

Okay, installed MSYS/MinGW, compiled a current checkout, and I don't
see the problem either.  So it seems to be fixed.

BTW, the configure.bat script told me to execute `gmake' in order to
build.  But actually `make bootstrap' was required.  Maybe the script
could be a bit more verbose about this.

-- 
Ralf