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24.3.90; segmentation fault in deselect_palette

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From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Zdzislaw Meglicki <gustav <at> iu.edu>
Cc: 17688 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17688: 24.3.90; segmentation fault in deselect_palette
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:08:36 -0400

On 6/4/2014 11:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> (gdb) bt full
>> #0  0x0000000100631d84 in deselect_palette (f=0x0, hdc=0x0)
>>      at /usr/src/debug/emacs-24.3.90-1/src/w32xfns.c:123
>> No locals.
>> #1  0x0000000100631e53 in release_frame_dc (f=0x0, hdc=0x0)
>>      at /usr/src/debug/emacs-24.3.90-1/src/w32xfns.c:154
>>          ret = 0
>> #2  0x00000001006351f9 in uniscribe_encode_char (
>>      font=0x101071d30 <bss_sbrk_buffer+6928560>, c=76)
>>      at /usr/src/debug/emacs-24.3.90-1/src/w32uniscribe.c:585
>>          context = 0x0
>>          f = 0x0
>>          old_font = 0x0
>>          code = 15
>>          ch = L"LC"
>>          len = 1
>>          items = 0x436980
>>          nitems = 1
>>          uniscribe_font = 0x101071d30 <bss_sbrk_buffer+6928560>
>
> This backtrace makes no sense: uniscribe_encode_char calls
> release_frame_dc only if the variable 'context' has a non-NULL value
> (and then 'f' should also be non-NULL).  But here we see that
> release_frame_dc is called by uniscribe_encode_char when both
> 'context' and 'f' are NULL, which cannot happen.  I was about to say
> that this could be due to compiler optimizations that screw up the
> backtrace, but then I saw that your Emacs binary was built with -O0.
> So now I'm stumped how could this happen at all.

That's been the problem for several months.  People have reported 
several crashes of the Cygwin-w32 build, always on 64-bit Cygwin, with 
backtraces that "can't happen".  Can you think of any way to try to 
track this down?

Ken

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