Re: C-g crash in C-x C-f (OSX Lion)

[Carsten Mattner]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:19:19 +0100
>> From: Carsten Mattner <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> > #0  0x9adc5d50 in strlen ()
>> > #1  0x001e7601 in intern (str=0x0) at lread.c:3707
>> > #2  0x00283efb in ns_string_to_symbol (t=0x0) at nsselect.m:86
>> > #3  0x002847ab in ns_handle_selection_request (event=0xbfffef88) at
>> > nsselect.m:247
>> >
>> > vs the below with with the terminal frontend.
>> >
>> > Next I will not load evil-mode and see what happens.
>>
>> Can these crashes happen due to enabled assertions?
>
> No.  Emacs crashes because it tries to compute the length of a string
> specified by a NULL pointer.  It looks like this happens due to a
> selection request, but when that request is handled, Emacs tries to
> intern a name that is a NULL string.

For the record, I'm not sure this is the original crash I reported
that happened in the mini-buffer.

If I enable evil-mode I can reliably make it crash by pressing
v and then navigating with say } and making a selection.