On 06/16/2014 02:16 PM, Stephen Berman wrote:

> How long does it take for HELLO to be displayed on your machine?

No more than 1s, I think.

> Do you have time to type `C-g' numerous times?

Hopefully yes.

> Unfortunately, I still get the same crash.  Does it matter that I the
> emacs-24 source I applied your patch to includes Eli's patch to alloc.c?

Yes.

Perhaps font->driver must be set to NULL earlier, immediately after
allocation? Try this.

Dmitry