temacs crash loading international/characters.el

[Juanma Barranquero]

temacs is crashing during bootstrap (on W2K):

Loading loadup.el (source)...
Using load-path (../lisp c:/bin/emacs/HEAD/lisp/emacs-lisp c:/bin/emacs/HEAD/lis
p/language c:/bin/emacs/HEAD/lisp/international)
Loading byte-run (source)...
Loading emacs-lisp/backquote (source)...
Loading subr (source)...
Loading version.el (source)...
Loading widget (source)...
Loading custom (source)...
Loading map-ynp (source)...
Loading env (source)...
Loading cus-start (source)...
Loading international/mule (source)...
Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)...
Loading format (source)...
Loading bindings (source)...
Loading simple (source)...
Loading files (source)...
Loading cus-face (source)...
Loading faces (source)...
Lists of integers (garbage collection statistics) are normal output
while building Emacs; they do not indicate a problem.
((86203 . 17765) (4989 . 22) (537 . 78) 313293 22127 (6 . 0) (14 . 0) (6298 . 
254))
Loading loaddefs.el (source)...
((101611 . 4615) (7043 . 0) (546 . 69) 962214 22127 (8 . 0) (14 . 0) (12176 . 
46))
Loading help (source)...
Loading international/mule-cmds (source)...
Loading case-table (source)...
Loading international/characters (source)...

The crash happens at composite.c, line 460:

 func = COMPOSITE_MODIFICATION_FUNC (prop);

The trace stack shows:

 run_composition_function(1, 39987, 1)
 update_compositions(39987, 1, 3)
 Finsert_file_contents("c:/bin/emacs/HEAD/lisp/international/characters.el",
                       nil, 0, 47876, nil)




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