21.4 geometry setting can be fatal

I convinced a coworker of mine to upgrade to XEmacs 21.4. He was dismayed when his long-running setting of Emacs*geometry in his .Xdefaults caused XEmacs to print: Invalid geometry resource on his terminal, and then exit. I looked into it, and found the offending code in src/device-x.c, in sanity_check_geometry_resource. Somebody decided that (X)Emacs*geometry and (x)emacs*geometry are evil and should be ignored, it seems. The function calls warn_when_safe with an explanation, and then throws an error with the string noted above. However, the error apparently convinces XEmacs [1] to just print the error text on the terminal and exit. We should either: (1) Make sure that this error is not fatal; or (2) Print the explanation on the terminal instead of calling warn_when_safe. I prefer (1). Does anybody know how to make this happen? Footnotes: [1] pdumped, if that has anything to do with it; perhaps the value of `initialized' is significant. -- Jerry James http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~james/