Hi Vin, Have you had a chance to look at incorporating this patch in XEmacs?  Best regards,    Adam, hoping I am not to naggy. On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:49:12 -0400, Vin wrote: > Adam - > Thanks for digging in on this.  You're not entirely by yourself - I > tried out your killer gif on my cygwin Windows build, and > unsurprisingly, XEmacs crashed immediately. > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Adam Sjøgren <asjo(a)koldfront.dk&gt; wrote: >> (Continuing talking to myself:) >> I've checked how other code handles color maps when reading gifs >> (specifically libimlib2-dev in Debian), and the following patch fixes >> the problem I encountered and makes the logo.gif in Mike Kupfers issue >> #713 show correctly (same as in Firefox): >> >> diff -r 04811a268716 -r 2519c46c4b9b src/glyphs-eimage.c >> --- a/src/glyphs-eimage.c       Sun Aug 15 15:42:45 2010 +0100 >> +++ b/src/glyphs-eimage.c       Fri Aug 20 10:49:12 2010 +0200 >> ＠＠ -694,7 +694,7 ＠＠ >> >>   /* 3. Now create the EImage(s) */ >>   { >> -    ColorMapObject *cmo = unwind.giffile->SColorMap; >> +    ColorMapObject *cmo = (unwind.giffile->Image.ColorMap ? unwind.giffile->Image.ColorMap : unwind.giffile->SColorMap); >>     int i, j, row, pass, interlace, slice; >>     UINT_64_BIT pixels_sq; >>     Binbyte *eip; >> ＠＠ -703,6 +703,9 ＠＠ >>     static int InterlacedOffset[] = { 0, 4, 2, 1 }; >>     static int InterlacedJumps[] = { 8, 8, 4, 2 }; >> >> +    if (cmo == NULL) >> +      signal_image_error ("GIF image has no color map", instantiator); >> + >>     height = unwind.giffile->SHeight; >>     width = unwind.giffile->SWidth; >>     pixels_sq = (UINT_64_BIT) width * (UINT_64_BIT) height; > I much prefer this version of the fix.  :-) >> I'm sure I haven't submitted this patch in the correct way, as I haven't >> had the time (nor momentum) to look into patcher etc. I hope someone >> will pick it up anyway. > I'll try this out by Sunday or Monday if no one else gets to this first. > Regards, >   Vin --  "But we are stubborn."                                       Adam Sjøgren                                                         asjo(a)koldfront.dk