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24.2.50; crash in note_mouse_highlight

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Message #32 received at 12251 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 12251 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12251: 24.2.50; crash in note_mouse_highlight
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:19:36 -0400

> * martin rudalics <ehqnyvpf <at> tzk.ng> [2012-08-23 10:48:43 +0200]:
>
> (1) A frame has not been set up completely but one of its windows exists
>     already.  I tried to fix this by changing Fset_window_buffer calls
>     to set_window_buffer calls but maybe something still slips through.
>
> (2) A window still exists although its frame has been already deleted.
>     This would constitute a bug in delete_frame.
>
> (3) C code tries to run on a window that has not yet been set up
>     completely.  I can't imagine how this would happen.

none of these seem to be applicable because I have only one frame and
the window in question, *Groups*, was on the way out.

> BTW I see that note_mouse_highlight has
>
>   /* Not on a window -> return.  */
>   if (!WINDOWP (window))
>     return;
>
> Shouldn't the window be live here?

definitely!

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