bug#5396: Something in splash page causes Emacs to crash?

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.64.1001281856410.16457@mnc.zngu.hop.pn>, Joseph Tam 
<tam@math.ubc.ca> writes:

>       (gdb) up
>       #2  0x003470d4 in xfont_list_pattern (display=0x958020, 
> pattern=0xffbfc938 "-adobe-helvetica-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1",
>           registry=542395320, script=542121656) at xfont.c:414
>       414               if (font_parse_xlfd (buf, entity) < 0)

>       (gdb) p buf
>       $1 = 
> "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-x-x-x-12-120-p-67-iso8859-1\0009-1\0006.\330\000\000\000\005\000\313l\210\000\000\000m\000f\324(\000\313l\210",
>  '\0' <repeats 17 times>, "6.\370", '\0' <repeats 17 times>, 
> "6.\240\000\000\000\002\000\306\030\230", '\0' <repeats 16 times>, 
> "\377\277\311f\377\277\307\354", '\0' <repeats 23 times>, "\001", '\0' 
> <repeats 11 times>, "\001\000\000\000\000\377\277\307\350\000\000\000\001", 
> '\0' <repeats 16 times>, "\377\277\307\210\000\000\000\003`_@\370 
> P\036\350"...

Ah!  Very strange XLFD font name; PIXEL_SIZE="x",
POINT_SIZE="x", RESX="12", RESY="120"!  Perhaps Emacs should
just ignore such a font.  Which font is actually opened when
you do:
% xfd -fn -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-x-x-x-12-120-p-67-iso8859-1

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org