bug#1097: Looping in redisplay due to font problem

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <87vdw91wl1.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> 
writes:

> > And, what does "Emacs begins looping while in redisplay" exactly mean?

> Emacs is unresponsive to any further input, and the character "o" in
> "Corsivo" flickers.  Interrupting the loop in gdb gives the following
> backtrace.  It seems to be stuck in an Xft function.

> #0  0x00007f54662e1433 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0x00007f546403b2b6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
> #2  0x00007f546403b8eb in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
> #3  0x00007f546403c050 in xcb_send_request () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
> #4  0x00007f5466e71f1a in _XPutXCBBuffer () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
> #5  0x00007f5466e72267 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
> #6  0x00007f54650be5a3 in XRenderFillRectangle () from 
> /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1
> #7  0x00007f5466c1f5b1 in XftDrawRect () from /usr/lib/libXft.so.2
> #8  0x0000000000656080 in xftfont_draw (s=0x7fff725843b0, from=0, to=1, 
> x=100, 

Does Emacs always stop at that place when you repeat "cont"
and "stop"?

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp