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24.5; Crash of emacs on OS X, installed via homebrew cask

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From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer <at> krugs.de>
To: Anders Lindgren <andlind <at> gmail.com>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 21428 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21428: 24.5;
 Crash of emacs on OS X, installed via homebrew cask
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:03:39 +0200

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Anders Lindgren <andlind <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> The frame I am using is a GUI frame - but if I remember correctly (and I
>> might be wrong) the crash happened when making emacs fullscreen.
>>
>
> This is a vital clue.
>
> If I remember correctly, when Emacs change between normal and full screen
> mode, it creates a new OS X window and discards the old. It uses two
> different Objective-C types EmacsWindow and EmacsFSWindow. (I'll can verify
> the details at home, where I have access to the source code.)
>
> My guess is that in this transition, some things are not fully set up when
> the callback arrives.

Unfortunately I do not have a backtrace, but emacs 25 just crashed when
closing one frame. Maybe unrelated - fyi.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> / Anders

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