GNU bug report logs - #14970
Assertion failure deleting frames

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 14970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14970: crash deleting frames
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:29:20 +0300

> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:54:58 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> CC: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 14970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  > ... (you cannot just
>  > use FRAME_LIVE_P here, because it will crash in the same way).
> 
> How does it crash?

The original crash was a SIGSEGV because f was a null pointer, and
FRAME_SELECTED_WINDOW dereferenced it.  But FRAME_LIVE_P also
dereferences its argument, so it would have crashed with the same
SIGSEGV.

I guess you are thinking about a frame pointer computed from a Lisp
frame object, in which case the pointer can never be null.  But this
is not that case: here we get the frame pointer from a call to
x_window_to_frame, which returns a null pointer to signal that it
failed to find an Emacs frame that corresponds to a Windows window.

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