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27.0.50; Snake exit not save produces segfault

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Ergus <spacibba <at> aol.com>, 37836 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37836: 27.0.50; Snake exit not save produces segfault
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:26:00 +0100

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

>> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 21:54:48 +0200
>> From: Ergus via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>> 
>> I was playing snake and when the game ended it asked to create a
>> directory. I replied no and a segfault was produced and closed emacs.
>> 
>> The bt in the core file was this:
>
> Can you show the output of xbacktrace?
>
> The backtrace indicates that Emacs got a SIGSEGV inside Fvector that
> was called from some timer function, but the function itself is not
> shown, AFAICT.  It probably isn't related to snake at all.

It seems like we need more info here to make any progress.  Could you
try to produce the output that Eli is looking for?  Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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