Re: 23.0.60; latest CVS builds but fails on fonts

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:

> I updated again, ran make, invoked emacs -Q, and it aborted before the
> Emacs frame appeared.  Here's the backtrace:

> (gdb) r -Q
> The program being debugged has been started already.
> Start it from the beginning? (y or n) y
> Starting program: /Users/steve/cvsroot/emacs/src/emacs -Q
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread 0xb6dc88d0 (LWP 31189)]
> [Switching to Thread 0xb6dc88d0 (LWP 31189)]

> Breakpoint 1, abort () at emacs.c:428
> 428       kill (getpid (), SIGABRT);
> (gdb) bt full
> #0  abort () at emacs.c:428
> No locals.
> #1  0x081665d0 in make_uninit_multibyte_string (nchars=-1, nbytes=-1) at 
> alloc.c:2501
>         string = <value optimized out>
>         s = <value optimized out>
> #2  0x081665f3 in make_uninit_string (length=-1) at alloc.c:2484
>         val = <value optimized out>
> #3  0x0816662a in make_unibyte_string (contents=0xbfe384e0 
> "\323f?\b\31186\b\n", length=-1)
>     at alloc.c:2395
>         val = <value optimized out>
> #4  0x080ef473 in Fnew_fontset (name=138372819, fontlist=143195581) at 
> fontset.c:1575
>         font_spec = 147064244
>         len = -1
>         fontset = 147076752
>         id = <value optimized out>

Ummm, strange.  I can't reproduce it with your X resources.

Please start Emacs under gdb as this (in src/emacs directory):
% gdb emacs
(gdb) br Fnew_fontset
(gdb) run -q

And, at each time the execution stops at Fnew_fontset,
check the arguments by the commands:
(gdb) pp name
(gdb) pp fontlist

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Kenichi Handa
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