bug#12050: 23.3; font trashes mode-line file name

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:28:05 -0400
> From: joseph@photosessionsltd.com
> 
> I built emacs-24.1 in a local directory and tried it with the same command
> line. I find emacs-23.3 is decidedly more friendly than emacs-24.1. 23.3
> merely trashes the filename in the mode-line. 24.1 gives
> Fatal error (11) Segmentation fault.
> 
> I can invoke emacs-24.1 with some alternative not default font and it does
> come up ok and display file names in the mode line. The following line
> with a helvetica font displays ok in emacs23.3 (i.e., mode-line fine). The
> following line gives Fatal error (11) Segmentation fault with emacs-24.1.
> 
> emacs -q -fn -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15 anyfile

I think this problem was already fixed in the development sources.
But before I send you the change that fixed it, could you please run
Emacs under a debugger and see in what source line does it crash?  I'd
like to verify that what you see is the same problem as the one that
was fixed.

Thanks.

P.S. Please keep the bug address on the CC line, so that this
discussion is archived on the bug tracker.