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author | Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> | 2014-02-21 18:47:04 +0200 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> | 2014-02-21 18:47:04 +0200 |
commit | 7ce645e001cd89ca55bb18487c43de1a0774d81d (patch) | |
tree | d3294130382bb8d28fd14e079e49ce86b982d8bc /etc | |
parent | 612ddfc0967c37fb36c3a6e7912b23e149678caa (diff) |
Another update of MS-Windows entries in etc/PROBLEMS.
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-rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 7c1999da3a..332f28dd93 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1934,6 +1934,22 @@ stop and start the service from the Computer Management application, accessible by right-clicking "My Computer" or "Computer", selecting "Manage", then clicking on "Services".) +** Emacs crashes when exiting the Emacs session + +This was reported to happen when some optional DLLs, such as those +used for displaying images or the GnuTLS library, which are loaded +on-demand, have a runtime dependency on the libgcc DLL, +libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll. The reason seems to be a bug in libgcc which +rears its ugly head whenever the libgcc DLL is loaded after Emacs has +started. + +One solution for this problem is to find an alternative build of the +same optional library that does not depend on the libgcc DLL. + +Another possibility is to rebuild Emacs with the -shared-libgcc +switch, which will force Emacs to load libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll on startup, +ahead of any optional DLLs loaded on-demand later in the session. + ** PATH can contain unexpanded environment variables Old releases of TCC (version 9) and 4NT (up to version 8) do not correctly |