From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, 23386@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23386: Segfault when messing with font-backend
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:17:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8hpgseb.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73cd86e5-3c92-cb6a-3a7b-1a5ec82c05de@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Antipov's message of "Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:29:59 +0300")
Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru> writes:
> On 07/09/2016 10:11 PM, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>
>> Here is a patch that attempts to fix the issue by resetting the font
>> after the backend is changed. It does let Emacs successfully open the
>> frame with the new font (no funny box characters in the modeline), but
>> I'm not sure if it's the best way of marking the font object invalid.
>
> IMHO the original trick (request to drop font backend when there is a font
> opened by using this backend) is practically meaningless, so why just not
> prohibit it explicitly? For example, with:
Maybe that is a better idea; it does prevent the segfault, and it's
certainly simpler.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-10 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-27 13:13 bug#23386: Segfault when messing with font-backend Stefan Monnier
2016-04-27 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-27 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-09 19:11 ` npostavs
2016-07-09 20:02 ` npostavs
2016-07-10 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-10 20:15 ` npostavs
2016-07-10 17:29 ` Dmitry Antipov
2016-07-10 20:17 ` npostavs [this message]
2016-07-11 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-12 15:20 ` Dmitry Antipov
2016-07-12 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-12 17:58 ` Dmitry Antipov
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87a8hpgseb.fsf@users.sourceforge.net \
--to=npostavs@users.sourceforge.net \
--cc=23386@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=dmantipov@yandex.ru \
--cc=monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.