Re: Emacs crashes, 07nov16

[Jan Djärv]

Robert J. Chassell skrev:
>     I wonder if we are miscommunicating here.  Do you mean crash, as
>     in abort or core dump?  Or do you just mean the breakpoint was
>     hit?
> 
> I mean the instance vanishes.  No more GNU Emacs, and the information
> I typed in recently is NOT saved.
> 
> This only happens in my regular font
> 
>     -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO8859-1
> 
> which has a size of 20.  (I am now using a less desireable font to
> prevent such crashes.)
> 
> My test file has two mail messages in it, the first harmless, the
> second tries to insert 
> 
>     (make-char 'latin-iso8859-15 164)
> 
> You should be able to reproduce the problem by setting the arguments
> of a GDB with
> 
>  set args -i -q -fn 
> '-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO8859-1'
> 
> and then trying to insert a Euro symbol.
> 

One would think so, but I can't make it crash.  I tried several different
builds, OS:es and machines.  Can you mail me the fonts in question (off-list)?
 They should be in /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ or /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, the
files should be 10x20-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz and 10x20.pcf.gz (check fonts.dir in
the misc directory).

        Jan D.