Re: Emacs (HEAD) crash on M$ (XP) built with MinGW

[dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:00:33 +0530
>> From: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
>> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> >> I put the following lines in my .emacs, opened xdisp.c file and used
>> >> the arrow button to move down the lines. Once the cursor reached the
>> >> last visible line, the crash happens (before pulling the new lines
>> >> into visible frame).
>> >>
>> >> This crash does not happen with a different font though (like courier)!
>> >>
>> >> (setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
>> >> (setq *def-font
>> >>  "-*-Lucida Sans Typewriter-normal-*-*-mono-13-*-*-*-c-*-*-*")
>> >> (if (boundp '*def-font)
>> >>    (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist `(font . ,*def-font)))
>> >>
>> >
>> > The crash does not happen with (increased the font size by 1 point):
>> > (setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
>> > (setq *def-font
>> >  "-*-Lucida Sans Typewriter-normal-*-*-mono-14-*-*-*-c-*-*-*")
>> > (if (boundp '*def-font)
>> >    (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist `(font . ,*def-font)))
>>
>> Could anyone reproduce the crash? Due to lack of knowledge of the
>> display source code, I am not able to further analyze.
>
> Can you reproduce the crash if, instead of putting the above in
> .emacs, you put it in a file named foo.el and invoke Emacs like this:

Yes, I tested it that way by putting it in a different file and
invoking emacs as:
emacs -Q -l file_with_above_lines

-dhruva

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