Re: minibuffer-message segfault

[Andreas Schwab]

tshannon@rush.edu (Thomas R. Shannon) writes:

|> 1. Start an xterm (rxvt).
|> 2. Type "emacs" at the command prompt to start Emacs.
|> 3. Type the following in the *scratch* buffer:
|> 
|>      (minibuffer-message nil)
|> 
|> 4. Evaluate the command with M-x eval-region
|> 
|> 5. Emacs fails (i.e. the program stops running and Emacs disappears
|>    from the display).  The following error message appears in the
|>    terminal followed by the new command prompt:
|> 
|>    Fatal error (11).Segmentation fault
|> 
|> Emacs should handle this error without segfaulting.

Thanks for the report, this will be fixed in the next release.

Andreas.

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