GNU bug report logs - #23332
24.5; Emacs find-file crash

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Devon Sean McCullough" <Emacs-Hacker2016 <at> jovi.net>

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 17:22:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 23332 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Devon Sean McCullough" <Emacs-Hacker2016 <at> jovi.net>
Cc: 23332 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23332: 24.5; Emacs find-file crash
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:32:18 +0300

> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 11:58:12 -0500
> From: "Devon Sean McCullough" <Emacs-Hacker2016 <at> jovi.net>
> 
> MacOSX$ Open -n -a /Applications/Emacs.app --args -Q /tmp/full.js
> 
> crashes immediately under MacOS 10.11 (15A284) El Capitan.
> 
> MacOSX$ /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw /tmp/full.js
> 
> displays the file, which is full of wacky unicode characters.

Please try the latest pretest of Emacs 25.1.

> P.S. The full.js file and crash stack trace are enclosed in a tar xz file.

The backtrace indicates that the crash happened deep inside OS X
display code, so I think some OS X expert will have to look at this, if
the latest pretest doesn't fix it.

Thanks.
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