Re: w32: buglike behavior ver. 22.0.50.1 on msw98

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:48:36 -0500
> 
> I kwow that the use of proportional fonts is deprecated but since emacs
> does allow them, it should protect itself from them. On C-h a  "command"
> (e.g. help-apropos-"command" in version 21.3  the line for
> "self-insert-command" is 2446 characters long (via column-mode) in 22.0
> this same routine produces a line in the *Apropos* buffer that may be
> more than a million characters long (i.e. all the characters from all the
> Unicode ranges that arialuni.ttf includes). At this point Emacs locks up
> and the process must be terminated by "End Task"

Can you try to determine why it locks up? is it because the resulting
buffer is too large for the available memory?

> Shouldn't this line be truncated after the ascii range or just list
> the ranges of self-inserts rather than each character?

The problem is to know where it becomes dangerously large.