Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:49:15 -0400
From: "Eduardo Espinoza E." <eespinoz AT ing DOT puc DOT cl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Emacs crashes with fast arrow keys
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     There was no change in the behavior. GDB was also killed when Emacs
aborts.

     I will try to recompile Emacs with the debug info, to catch up the
keyboard input routine.

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On Wed, 9 May 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 12:22:34 -0400
> > From: "Eduardo Espinoza E." <eespinoz AT ing DOT puc DOT cl>
> > 
> >      Habitually i use cmd.exe. In this case, when Emacs aborts (according
> > to your indication), the prompt appear one line under the last place of
> > the cursor (the screen is not cleared).
> 
> This is expected: the code which clears the screen only runs upon
> normal exit.
> 
> >      Also i verified that if Emacs is executed as a child process, the
> > parent (a DJGPP program that i create to test this situation) whas also
> > silently finished when the problem appears.
> 
> That's really bad, it means that it will be very hard to find the
> reason.  Can run Emacs under GDB, and see if it behaves differently in
> any way?
>