64-bit emacs crashes a lot

[Ken Brown]

On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>>> ___chkstk_ms () at
>>> /usr/src/debug/gcc-4.8.1-1/libgcc/config/i386/cygwin.S:146
>>
>> You're not using the latest gcc, which is 4.8.1-3.  Any chance that
>> that's your problem?
> Heh. I actually do have the latest gcc, but somehow the upgrade didn't
> pick up the debug package (which showed as not installed in setup.exe).
> I have manually upgraded it now.

OK.  But doesn't the above show that the crash is occurring in gcc, not 
emacs?

> BTW, how do you compile emacs from the sources given? I tried untarring
> and patching, but I get the message:
>> configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to `x86_64-unknown-cygwin'
>> systems.
>> Check `etc/MACHINES' for recognized configuration names.

One of the patches changes configure.ac, so you have to run autoreconf 
after applying it.

Ken

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