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29.0.60; Crash in get_narrowed_begv

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Message #77 received at 61704 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>,
 61704 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61704: 29.0.60; Crash in get_narrowed_begv
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:28:32 +0100

Which BTW is not entirely trivial to do.
> The problem here is that Emacs should not crash, no matter what some
> other X client, such as the WM, does.

Right.  Even if we have no proof that frame resizing is the culprit
here.

> X programs are traditionally expected to not crash when run under a
> window manager that leaves features unimplemented, but to provide some
> kind of graceful fallback instead.

Right again.  And that's why I said that

> and OTOH the redisplay engine should be able to handle zero window
> sizes to avoid crashes the window code cannot prevent.

martin

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