GNU bug report logs - #65843
28.2; Too many iconified frames in .emacs.desktop -> crash (macOS)

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From: Christian Tanzer <tanzer <at> gg32.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 65843 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65843: 28.2;
 Too many iconified frames in .emacs.desktop -> crash (macOS)
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2023 18:36:07 +0100

On 09.09.2023, at 17:49, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2023 16:35:56 -0000
>> From:  Christian Tanzer via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>> 
>> In Emacs 28 and Emacs 29, desktop-load crashes when there are too many
>> iconified frames in the .emacs.desktop file.
>> 
>> The two attached .emacs.desktop files show the smallest test case that
>> I could come up with:
>> 
>> - .emacs.desktop.works with 3 non-iconified and 4 iconified frames
>>  loads without problem in Emacs 28
>> 
>>  + desktop-load of this file crashes in Emacs 29.1
>> 
>>  + a .emacs.desktop with 3 non-iconified and 3 iconified frames works
>>    in Emacs 29.1
>> 
>> - .emacs.desktop.crashes with 3 non-iconified and 5 iconified frames
>>  leads to a crash in Emacs 28 (see attached problem report generated
>>  by macOS)
>> 
>> - I tried .emacs.desktop with up to 17 non-iconified frames in Emacs
>>  28 without problems
>> 
>> - Up to Emacs 27, I've never seen a problem with desktop-load crashing
> 
> Thanks, can you run Emacs 29 under a debugger and show a backtrace
> when it crashes?

Unfortunately, I don’t have a C development environment setup on my little MacBook (and haven’t used gdb for more than 20 years besides).

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