From f9888580794b9addf34bd138075a4503c24793c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:29:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] etc/PROBLEMS: Mention crashes on MS-Windows when compiled with GCC 4.6.1. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 9e473156a78..e85972f0bfd 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -171,6 +171,14 @@ optimization. To do this, configure Emacs with CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls" ./configure +** Emacs compiled with GCC 4.6.1 crashes on MS-Windows when C-g is pressed + +This is known to happen when Emacs is compiled with MinGW GCC 4.6.1 +with the -O2 option (which is the default in the Windows build). The +reason is a bug in MinGW GCC 4.6.1; to work around, either add the +`-fno-omit-frame-pointer' switch to GCC or compile without +optimizations (`--no-opt' switch to the configure.bat script). + ** Emacs crashes in x-popup-dialog. This can happen if the dialog widget cannot find the font it wants to -- 2.39.2