From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Matthew Leach <matthew@mattleach.net>
Cc: 23259@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23259: 25.1.50; Xerror: "BadLength" on extreme zoom causing emacs to segfault
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:01:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vb3ph5i3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zit120yf.fsf@mattleach.net> (message from Matthew Leach on Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:49:12 +0100)
> From: Matthew Leach <matthew@mattleach.net>
> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:49:12 +0100
>
> emacs -Q
> open a file, emacs/src/process.c, say.
> C-x C-=
> and keep pressing
> C-=
>
> Emacs will grind to a halt a little but will eventually segfault when
> the zoom is extreme enough.
>
> Attached is the backtrace. It looks as though X has thrown an error,
> maybe we need to limit the amount of zoom that Emacs allows?
Probably. However, the interesting question is: what values to use as
limits?
Also, this backtrace is not useful, since the X errors are by default
asynchronous. Could you please run Emacs in synchronous X mode (see
etc/DEBUG for how), and present the backtrace then? Also, please
tell:
. what is the maximum value of the scale factor you see on the mode
line before Emacs crashes
. what is the value returned by display-pixel-width
. what is the values returned by frame-char-width and
frame-char-height
I'll try to prepare a patch using the above data.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-10 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-10 10:49 bug#23259: 25.1.50; Xerror: "BadLength" on extreme zoom causing emacs to segfault Matthew Leach
2016-04-10 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-04-10 15:33 ` Matthew Leach
2016-04-10 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-10 16:36 ` Matthew Leach
2016-04-10 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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