GNU bug report logs - #11541
24.0.97; Crash when visiting file on OS X 10.7.3

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Packages: emacs, ns;

Reported by: Florian Ebeling <florian.ebeling <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 16:20:02 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 11684, 11792, 11801

Found in versions 24.0.97, 24.1.50, 24.1

Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Florian Ebeling <florian.ebeling <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11541 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cyd <at> gnu.org, mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp
Subject: bug#11541: 24.0.97; Crash when visiting file on OS X 10.7.3
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:55:06 +0200

> One possibility is that trying to pass empty objects to NS APIs causes
> the crash.  Since the test program didn't yield empty objects, one
> possible approach is to try to understand what is the difference
> between the test program and ns_findfonts.

We tried that with the minimal program by Mitsuharu and I did it with
an almost empty Cocoa application.

In both cases, the result was a large collection of all (?) fonts on
the system. That is a plausible result as well for the system to
yield.
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