GNU bug report logs - #27040
25.2: fringe click event bug

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Charles A. Roelli" <charles <at> aurox.ch>

Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 18:14:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 27334

Found in version 25.2

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: "Charles A. Roelli" <charles <at> aurox.ch>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 27040 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27040: 25.2: fringe click event bug
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 11:30:48 +0200

Thanks!  I need to get more familiar with GDB...


On 27/05/2017 15:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: "Charles A. Roelli" <charles <at> aurox.ch>
>> Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 15:30:00 +0200
>>
>>>>     - emacs -q
>>>>     - C-h k
>>>>     - Click somewhere in the fringe:
>>>>
>>>>       => Args out of range: "Describe key (or click or menu item):
>>>> mouse-1", 0, 64
>>> Thanks, fixed.
>> Thank you.  Can I ask how you found the source of the error?
> By running Emacs under GDB and setting a C-level breakpoint on the
> function 'xsignal', through which all the errors are signaled.  That
> showed me that Emacs was calling 'substring' on a string shorter than
> the 3rd argument of the function.
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