Subject: bug#3255: 23.0.93; occasional abort() in check_glyph_memory

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:02:13 +0200

Markus Triska <[email-masked]> writes:

> Let ~/frame.el consist of:
>
>    (while t
>      (delete-frame (make-frame-on-display (getenv "DISPLAY"))))
>
> When I run "emacs -Q -nw ~/frame.el" and evaluate that expression, then
> wait a few seconds, and then press C-g C-x C-c, sometimes Emacs exits
> normally, and sometimes it exits with a fatal error. Backtrace:
>
> (gdb) r -Q -nw ~/frame.el
> Starting program: /Users/mt/emacs/src/emacs -Q -nw ~/frame.el
> Reading symbols for shared libraries .... done
>
> Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> 0x96621e42 in __kill ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x96621e42 in __kill ()

I'm unable to reproduce this bug in Emacs 24.  Do you still see this
crash in a current Emacs?

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