Re: address@hidden: [BUG] Emacs thinks it has a BDF font]

[Gerd Moellmann]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Can you please give him advice, and cc me and emacs-devel?
> 
> From: David Abrahams <address@hidden>
> Subject: [BUG] Emacs thinks it has a BDF font
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:50:42 -0400
> 
> 
> In http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/16583/ I reported that
> emacs is following an execution path which attempts to draw a BDF font
> even though none is in use, resulting in a crash deep in the drawing
> machinery about once a day for me.  I'm unfamiliar with this part of
> Emacs' display code.  Is there someone who can give me a little
> guidance about what to assert, where to set a breakpoint, or something
> (anything) that will help us to track this down?

I'm afraid I can't help here.  "BDF fonts" sounds like this is
is a problem specific to the MS-Windows version.