Subject: bug#23935: 25.1.50; simple reproducible crash for emacs -Q: `M-: (+ 1997 120 400)'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:48:33 +0300

> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:26:03 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:46:07 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> > 
> > Middle/Near East was successful.  Clicking once more crashed Emacs.
> 
> Looks like your problem is more basic than just one font.  Do other
> (older) Emacs versions also crash trying to display HELLO?

One more thing to try is start Emacs like this:

  emacs -Q -xrm Emacs.fontBackend:gdi

and then see if "C-h H" crashes Emacs.