Re: Emacs (HEAD) crash on M$ (XP) built with MinGW

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:00:33 +0530
> From: dhruva <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> >> I put the following lines in my .emacs, opened xdisp.c file and used
> >> the arrow button to move down the lines. Once the cursor reached the
> >> last visible line, the crash happens (before pulling the new lines
> >> into visible frame).
> >>
> >> This crash does not happen with a different font though (like courier)!
> >>
> >> (setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
> >> (setq *def-font
> >>  "-*-Lucida Sans Typewriter-normal-*-*-mono-13-*-*-*-c-*-*-*")
> >> (if (boundp '*def-font)
> >>    (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist `(font . ,*def-font)))
> >>
> >
> > The crash does not happen with (increased the font size by 1 point):
> > (setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
> > (setq *def-font
> >  "-*-Lucida Sans Typewriter-normal-*-*-mono-14-*-*-*-c-*-*-*")
> > (if (boundp '*def-font)
> >    (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist `(font . ,*def-font)))
> 
> Could anyone reproduce the crash? Due to lack of knowledge of the
> display source code, I am not able to further analyze.

Can you reproduce the crash if, instead of putting the above in
.emacs, you put it in a file named foo.el and invoke Emacs like this:

   emacs -Q -l foo.el

or maybe even "emacs -Q" and then "M-x load-file RET foo.el RET"?  I'm
asking because it's a hassle to move aside my .emacs and/or edit it.
Doing this with a different file starting from "emacs -Q" is much more
convenient.