RE: Crash with "Page Setup" menu item

From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:stephen＠xemacs.org] Hmm. It does for me on two separate PCs. One Win2k and one XP Home. Both using the same binary, built on the Win2k PC, though. Mine's the released 21.5.11. Is there a CVS snapshot (source) anywhere I could try with? I don't have CVS on the machine with a fast connection (firewall issues) so I can't get the CVS version myself. OK. I had a go. I don't know how to print anything useful out of Visual C++, but the crash comes from an abort() call in console.c get_console_variant(), marked with a comment /* should never happen */. "type" is 23503856, but as this is a Lisp_Object, which is typedef'd as an EMACS_INT, a pure integer, MSVC won't show me any fields which might be of use... Hmm. By a bit of digging and typecasting, it looks like "type" is a Lisp_Symbol with name "msprinter". Which is indeed not an option for get_console_variant(). get_console_variant() is called from allocate_console(), which is in turn called from create_console(), which is called from Fmake_device(). Type is passed down as a parameter through all these calls. Next call up is Ffuncall(), at which point I can't follow what's going on any more :-( But I see in the Lisp backtrace, which I included in the original mail, that there is a call to make-device(msprinter nil). I can't see much in the Lisp backtrace to help debug further though. It looks like make- device was called from Printer-get-device. Hope this helps. If you need any more information, or you can tell me how to get something you could use out of MSVC, then let me know. Paul.