Re: Segmentation violation in display_string

[Milan Zamazal]

>>>>> "KFS" == Kim F Storm <address@hidden> writes:

    KFS> Which version of CVS emacs do you use?

2005-05-08.  The bug was also reproducible with 2005-05-23.

    KFS> (defun speechd-speak-read-mode-line ()
    KFS>   "Read mode line.
    KFS> This function works only in Emacs 21.4 or higher."
    KFS>   (interactive)
    KFS>   (when (fboundp 'format-mode-line)
    KFS>     (speechd-speak--interactive
    KFS>      (speechd-speak--text (format-mode-line)))))    

    KFS> You need to explicitly give the mode-line-format as arg to
    KFS> format-mode-line, i.e.

Yes, this is a bug, thanks for pointing it out.

Nevertheless, this bug has nothing to do with the crash, because the
speechd-speak-read-mode-line function is not called unless the user
explicitly invokes the corresponding command.  Emacs crashes the same
way even if I fix the bug.

Regards,

Milan Zamazal

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