Re: reproducible memory problem and crashes on cygwin: TRACEBACK INCLUDED

[emacs user]

here is a traceback of a crash under cygwin.  am happy to provide more 
information, but please note that I am a total ignorant and needs very 
specific instructions on what to do in gdb etc.  thanks for any feedback... 
EU


address@hidden:~ $ cd /usr/local/emacs/src/
address@hidden:/usr/local/emacs/src $ gdb emacs
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
DISPLAY = :0.0
TERM = dumb
Breakpoint 1 at 0x2009da26: file emacs.c, line 464.
Breakpoint 2 at 0x200b6cd9: file sysdep.c, line 1395.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/emacs/src/emacs.exe -geometry 80x40+0+0
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/kernel32.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/bin/cygncurses-8.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/advapi32.dll
Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/rpcrt4.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/bin/cygjpeg-62.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/bin/cygpng12.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/bin/cygz.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/bin/cygtiff-5.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/bin/cygungif-4.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/bin/cygX11-6.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/bin/cygICE-6.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/bin/cygSM-6.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/bin/cygXaw3d-7.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/bin/cygXext-6.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/bin/cygXmu-6.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/bin/cygXt-6.dll
Loaded symbols for /usr/X11R6/bin/cygXpm-4.dll

Breakpoint 3 at 0x2007f3ac: file xterm.c, line 7822.
cont

Breakpoint 1, abort () at emacs.c:464
464       kill (getpid (), SIGABRT);
(gdb) Continuing.
  2703 [main] emacs 1136 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Exception: 
STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
warning: HEAP[emacs.exe]:
warning: HEAP: Free Heap block 264280 modified at 264284 after it was freed


Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
0x7c901231 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg ()
  from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
(gdb) where
#0  0x7c901231 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg ()
  from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
#1  0x7c96c943 in ntdll!RtlpNtMakeTemporaryKey ()
  from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
#2  0x00229210 in ?? ()
#3  0x7c949eb9 in ntdll!RtlInsertElementGenericTableAvl ()
  from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
#4  0x00264280 in ?? ()
#5  0x0000021a in ?? ()
#6  0x00250000 in ?? ()
#7  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#8  0x202fc1f9 in bss_sbrk_buffer ()
#9  0x0000062c in ?? ()
#10 0x00000000 in ?? ()

Lisp Backtrace:
"format" (0x21757b53)
"server-sentinel" (0x21861e04)
"kill-this-buffer-enabled-p" (0x202ee801)
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x7c901231 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg ()
  from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
#1  0x7c96c943 in ntdll!RtlpNtMakeTemporaryKey ()
  from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
#2  0x00229210 in ?? ()
#3  0x7c949eb9 in ntdll!RtlInsertElementGenericTableAvl ()
  from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
#4  0x00264280 in ?? ()
#5  0x0000021a in ?? ()
#6  0x00250000 in ?? ()
#7  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#8  0x202fc1f9 in bss_sbrk_buffer ()
#9  0x0000062c in ?? ()
#10 0x00000000 in ?? ()

Lisp Backtrace:
"format" (0x21757b53)
"server-sentinel" (0x21861e04)
"kill-this-buffer-enabled-p" (0x202ee801)
(gdb) xbacktrace
"format" (0x21757b53)
"server-sentinel" (0x21861e04)
"kill-this-buffer-enabled-p" (0x202ee801)
(gdb)

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