Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:32:16 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Emacs crashes on NT
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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> 1) NT does not support fat DS or non-move-sbrk.  You need to make sure you
>    are using unixy sbrk() and don't use near pointers.

Emacs uses unixy `sbrk' and doesn't use near pointers at all.

> 2) The trace above is valid - The DS=ES=SS, which looks like us, and the CS
>    is close after it.  ESP is garbage (or maybe on the internal exception 
>    handler stack ...)
> 3) EBX,ESI,EDI,EBP all point to roughly the same area in memory (probably the 
>    real stack)

Any ideas where to look (except asking the user to single-step through 
our startup code)?

Anyway, thanks for the info.