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25.0.93; SEGFAULT when displaying HELLO

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>,    Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mwd <at> cert.org
Subject: bug#23522: 25.0.93; SEGFAULT when displaying HELLO
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 21:53:43 +0300

> From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>
> Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>,  mwd <at> cert.org,  23522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 14:06:28 -0400
> 
> > Anyway, this sounds more and more like a bug in one of the libraries
> > Emacs uses, so I hope Handa-san will be able to chime in, since he is
> > one of the maintainers of those libraries.
> 
> Quite possible.  The most important thing, in my mind, is to prevent the
> crash if at all possible.  That could be done either by writing code to
> catch this type of error, or by blacklisting in configure certain
> versions of the library (assuming that this is reasonable, or possible,
> or a real solution at all).

Can you tell what versions are installed on the faulty system?

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