GNU bug report logs - #17771
24.3.91; SIGSEGV in cleanup_vector

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:14:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 16140, 16414, 17071, 17602

Found in versions 24.3.50, 24.3.91, 24.4.50

Fixed in version 24.3.93

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 17771 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 17771 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17771: 24.3.91; SIGSEGV in cleanup_vector
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:41:56 +0300

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:12:44 +0200
> 
> 
> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. C-h h (on my machine, it takes ~30 seconds for the Hello file to
>    appear; during that time, do the following:)
> 2. Type C-g repeatedly (I did it rapidly, for ~15 seconds).
> 3. Emacs crashes, full backtrace below.  (This is reliably reproducible.)

Not here, but this is Windows, where input is treated very
differently.

> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00000000005aa564 in cleanup_vector (vector=0x43b4ea8)
>     at ../../../../bzr/emacs/emacs-24/src/alloc.c:2929
> 2929          ((struct font *) vector)->driver->close ((struct font *) vector);

So which one is the bad pointer, vector, vector->driver, or
vector->driver->close?
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