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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
Cc: 24790@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24790: Segmentation fault when changing default font on master
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:42:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83twc0use9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a23afdb-f7d0-c983-7b25-206bd5a80017@live.com> (message from Clément Pit--Claudel on Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:27:45 -0400)

> Cc: 24790@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:27:45 -0400
> 
> >> My Emacs has patch af1a69f4d17a482c359d98c00ef86fac835b5fac reverted.  Could this make a difference?
> > 
> > With such a simple reproducer, it's much easier to re-apply the patch
> > and see if it makes the difference than answer your question by just
> > looking at your data.
> 
> Indeed, and it seems that my reversing this patch is what caused the issue (IOW, I can't crash Emacs any more after re-applying the patch).

So this report can be closed?

> > Why do you still have that commit reverted, btw?  I thought the
> > problem caused by it is nowadays solved: you have a variable to avoid
> > it.
> 
> I never heard about that variable :) Which one is it?

inhibit-compacting-font-caches, see NEWS on the emacs-25 branch.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-25 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-25 14:33 bug#24790: Segmentation fault when changing default font on master Clément Pit--Claudel
     [not found] ` <handler.24790.B.147740604715477.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2016-10-25 16:05   ` bug#24790: Acknowledgement (Segmentation fault when changing default font on master) Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-25 17:09     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-25 17:50       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-25 18:21         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-25 19:31           ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-25 16:43 ` bug#24790: Segmentation fault when changing default font on master Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-25 19:27   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-25 19:42     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-25 20:18       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-26 16:43         ` Glenn Morris

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