Re: [CRASH] Incorrect (make-annotation ...) vaporizes XEmacsen 21.[02]

Monday, 14 December 1998

        SL Baur writes:
...
 Colin Rafferty <craffert(a)ms.com&gt; writes in
xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
  ...
> I can reproduce this in a vanilla XEmacs. 
...
> Here is the Lisp code (assuming that you have a recycle2.xpm
glyph).
> Note that this will not happen if you use the default gc-pointer-glyph. 
...
> (if (featurep 'xpm)
> (let ((file (locate-data-file "recycle2.xpm")))
> (if (condition-case error
> (make-image-instance file nil
> '(pointer))
> (error nil))
> (set-glyph-image gc-pointer-glyph file)))) 
...
> (make-annotation gc-pointer-glyph nil 'text) 
...
 This sequence crashes on me. 
...
   Fatal error: assertion failed, file redisplay-x.c, line 491,
abort() 
I don't know if it makes you feel better or worse, but it also crashes 
19.16 and 19.15.

However, the equivalent in 19.13 does not crash, but creates the
margin annotation correctly.

-- 
Colin

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