From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Hang in Emacs 21.3.50 Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:05:57 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20021129111549.AA9B12563E@server2.fastmail.fm> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038665571 29000 80.91.224.249 (30 Nov 2002 14:12:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 14:12:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18I8MU-0007Xc-00 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 15:12:50 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18I8UY-0003M7-00 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 15:21:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18I8M2-0004kI-00; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:12:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18I8L3-0003wW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:11:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18I8Ky-0003ii-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:11:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18I8Fr-0000b1-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:05:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18I8Fp-0007zP-00; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 09:05:57 -0500 Original-To: seagull@fastmail.fm In-reply-to: <20021129111549.AA9B12563E@server2.fastmail.fm> (seagull@fastmail.fm) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9760 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9760 I have no clue and do not know how to debug a HANG using GDB. See etc/DEBUG for a lot of advice. You can stop Emacs by typing C-z at the window where GDB is running. What you want is `(font . ,my-def-font) instead of '(font . my-def-font) -- the latter uses the symbol my-def-font as the font, the former evals it as a variable. This is a bug in Dhruva's code, but it still seems wrong for Emacs to loop--it ought to report an error. Can someone debug why it loops, and make it report a clean error?