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25.0.93; SEGFAULT when displaying HELLO

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Message #44 received at 23522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>
Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, mwd <at> cert.org,
 23522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23522: 25.0.93; SEGFAULT when displaying HELLO
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:22:37 +0100

Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> 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?
>
> On the faulty system, m17n is 1.5.5.  The font package
> (lohit-gujarati-fonts) is 2.4.4 (Oct 27 2009)
>
> On the working system, m17n is 1.6.4.  The font package
> (fonts-lohit-gujr)  is 2.92.2 (Jan 2 2014)

From the above, it seems like this is a bug in an old version of some
external library, and not a bug in Emacs.  So I guess this should be
closed as notabug?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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