Re: "Invalid or undefined bitmap" when launched with -Q

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.08.2006 um 21:20 schrieb Richard Stallman:

>     Name is a number: 60552283. This number gets used consistently  
> a few
>     times in a handful of functions.
>
> What GDB command did you use to examine it?  I want to make sure
> there is no confusion here.

print

> If it is a Lisp integer, that sounds like a bug, so I suggest you
> investigate where that number came from.

No, it is some Lisp type. All file or path names to X11 bitmaps are  
like this one. And there's one routine, openp, that translates these  
numbers into real path names – /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps for  
example.

There was some discussion on this with Eli Zaretskii and Nick  
Roberts. At some time you were excluded from the list of recipients,  
but copies can be found on the emacs-pretest-bug list. There I  
describe that with my Apple version of Gdb I cannot determine the  
kind of Lisp type. I can use print and p to determine the value of a  
variable, but pr or xpr fail.

Right now I am updating my Fink system (to easily install public  
domain software on Mac OS X) – it's just needed and only coincides  
with this invalid bitmap issue. It will take some hours. After that  
I'll again try to compile GNU Emacs with Gcc 4.1. Until now this  
failed because some mismatch with autoconf and such utilities happen  
which I do not know how to overcome.

I've seen the invalid bitmap message a few more times in *Messages*  
when running such an emacs and doing some things in it in my regular  
set-up. Different CFLAGS or LDFLAGS do not change this.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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