GNU bug report logs - #44850
27.1; Emacs crash in font handling with font-backend ns

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pieter van Oostrum <pieter <at> vanoostrum.org>

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 18:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in versions 27.1, 28.0.50

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Pieter van Oostrum <pieter-l <at> vanoostrum.org>
Cc: 44850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pieter van Oostrum <pieter <at> vanoostrum.org>
Subject: bug#44850: 27.1; Emacs crash in font handling with font-backend ns
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 18:22:18 +0000

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 03:48:00PM +0100, Pieter van Oostrum wrote:
> I compiled the emacs-27 branch from Git with debugging info, and here is the extended backtrace:
> 
> It seems that macfont_info->cache is NULL.

My guess here is that the driver isn't properly initialised. I'm
unsure where this is going wrong.

BTW, it doesn't matter what you set font-backend to, as long as it's
not mac-ct it crashes.

-- 
Alan Third
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