GNU bug report logs - #23386
Segfault when messing with font-backend

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:14:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 35803, 36835, 39865

Found in versions 25.0.95, 28.0.50, 25.0.50, 24.1, 24.5, 26.2, 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 23386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 23386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23386: Segfault when messing with font-backend
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 16:02:30 -0400

npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net writes:

> Here is a patch that attempts to fix the issue by resetting the font
> after the backend is changed.  It does let Emacs successfully open the
> frame with the new font (no funny box characters in the modeline), but
> I'm not sure if it's the best way of marking the font object invalid.

Definitely not the best way: it causes segfault on delete-frame.
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