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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Failed assertion on make-frame-on-display
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:16:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vel9ub4k.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Glm6C-00009B-U5@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 19 Nov 2006 07\:48\:40 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> 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 can't test this, but probably the way to fix this is to make it an
error to try to make a frame on a display that doesn't support the
default font; i.e., x-create-frame should try to load the default font
on the new display if it is not already loaded, and do an Ferror if
the load fails.

WDYT?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-20 20:16 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 [this message]
2006-11-21  7:48   ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-21 17:27   ` Chong Yidong

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