Re: minibuffer-message segfault

[Thomas R. Shannon]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> 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.

Glad it helped.

Tom S.
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