From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Andreas Seltenreich <seltenreich@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Failed assertion on make-frame-on-display
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:27:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878xi4ww00.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vel9ub4k.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon\, 20 Nov 2006 15\:16\:43 -0500")
>> I can trigger the following assertion by running
>>
>> emacs -Q -fn "-*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-1"
>>
>> and M-x make-frame-on-display to a display that doesn't have that font
>> installed. When compiled without assertions, emacs dies when
>> dereferencing the NULL returned by choose_face_font.
I've checked in a fix. Emacs won't crash anymore (and trying to make
a frame on a display that doesn't support the default font raises a
Lisp error.)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-21 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-19 12:48 Failed assertion on make-frame-on-display Richard Stallman
2006-11-20 20:16 ` Chong Yidong
2006-11-21 7:48 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-21 17:27 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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