abort in C-h k

[Frederik Fouvry]

Symptoms:

In language-environment Latin-1, with input-method latin-1-prefix:

C-h k "

makes Emacs abort.

This is the gdb output (using .gdbinit in src/):

Breakpoint 1, abort () at emacs.c:442
442       kill (getpid (), SIGABRT);
(gdb) 
(gdb) bt
#0  abort () at emacs.c:442
#1  0x0811f0f3 in string_bytes () at alloc.c:1720
#2  0x080d9e8e in echo_now () at keyboard.c:873
#3  0x080dcd71 in read_char (commandflag=0, nmaps=2, maps=0xbfffd460, 
    prev_event=137268273, used_mouse_menu=0xbfffd498) at keyboard.c:3105
#4  0x080e3756 in read_key_sequence (keybuf=0xbfffd5b0, bufsize=30, 
    prompt=142379163, dont_downcase_last=0, can_return_switch_frame=0, 
    fix_current_buffer=0) at keyboard.c:8811
#5  0x080e4b2c in Fread_key_sequence (prompt=142379163, 
    continue_echo=137268273, dont_downcase_last=137268273, 
    can_return_switch_frame=137268273, command_loop=-1073752536)
    at keyboard.c:9536
#6  0x08131b80 in Fcall_interactively (function=138317441, 
    record_flag=137268273, keys=137329324) at callint.c:616
#7  0x080e4f2f in Fcommand_execute (cmd=138317441, record_flag=137268273, 
    keys=137268273, special=137268273) at keyboard.c:9705
#8  0x080daa94 in command_loop_1 () at keyboard.c:1787
#9  0x08133a9a in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x80da75c <command_loop_1>, 
    handlers=137334057, hfun=0x80da2e0 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1384
#10 0x080da5e2 in command_loop_2 () at keyboard.c:1314
#11 0x08133635 in internal_catch (tag=137268297, 
    func=0x80da5c4 <command_loop_2>, arg=137268273) at eval.c:1144
#12 0x080da599 in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1293
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#13 0x080da098 in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:986
#14 0x080da1b8 in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1047
#15 0x080d899f in main (argc=3, argv=0xbfffde94) at emacs.c:1744
#16 0x42015967 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6



In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.29 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2004-12-14 on cc.at.coli.uni-sb.de
Distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40201000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: address@hidden
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <escape> x r e c o v <tab> 
s e <tab> <return> C-c C-c y y e s <return> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> C-x 
C-s <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-bug> 
d e s c r i b e <escape> <backspace> C-g <C-down-mouse-1> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
(./emacs -q --no-site-file)
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Loading help-mode...done
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