Subject: Re: bug#9904: 24.0.90; Crash in show_mouse_face

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:08:33 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Emacs segfaulted in show_mouse_face last week (revno 106154, I
>> think). I have a core file.
>
> FWIW, I cannot find any change during the last 2 weeks that could
> somehow be related.
>
> Where could this garbled "window" come from? some GC or
> memory-allocation snafu?

Might the window assigned to dpyinfo->mouse_highlight->hlinfo have
gotten garbage collected?  Does the GC mark that slot?  I can't find the
place where it does so.