From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <unhammer@fsfe.org>
Cc: 44329@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44329: 28.0.50; Crash in bidi_mirror_char on view-hello-file when no bidi-display-reordering (harfbuzz)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:42:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k0v7affj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6w3sqxg.fsf@fastmail.com> (message from Kevin Brubeck Unhammer on Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:56:43 +0100)
tags 44329 wontfix
thanks
> From: Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <unhammer@fsfe.org>
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:56:43 +0100
>
> I'm seeing a crash in displaying hebrew characters when I have
> bidi-display-reordering set to nil. I had to set it to t to be able to
> write this email :)
>
> Possibly related to these two:
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=44113
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=41627
> though I'm running with their patches
> (0f1f795fc8b72bfa0381089d1ff60f8801e394b0 built today).
>
> $ cat ~/.emacs.d/chartab-bug-init.el
> (setq-default bidi-display-reordering nil)
This isn't supported: that variable is not supposed to be set nil,
except for debugging display problems.
> Thread 1 "emacs" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x000055555568bc54 in char_table_ref (table=XIL(0), c=1513) at chartab.c:237
> 237 val = tbl->contents[CHARTAB_IDX (c, 0, 0)];
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x000055555568bc54 in char_table_ref (table=XIL(0), c=1513) at chartab.c:237
I cannot reproduce this, but the problem is obviously caused by not
having the uni-mirrored.el data loaded into Emacs.
Like I said: this mode of using Emacs is not supported. Please don't
do that.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-30 14:56 bug#44329: 28.0.50; Crash in bidi_mirror_char on view-hello-file when no bidi-display-reordering (harfbuzz) Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
2020-10-30 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-10-30 16:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-30 20:42 ` Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
2020-10-30 21:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-30 23:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-31 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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