[1225] in Athena Bugs
(VS2000) Version 6.0R: emacs dumps core on bad size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Mon Oct 24 11:37:40 1988
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 88 11:37:20 EDT
From: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System type, version: (VS2000) Version 6.0R
System name: kremvax
What's wrong:
Due to a typo, I had =80x490+0+0 as my emacs geometry in my
~/.Xdefaults. Emacs dumped core (illegal instruction). This is *very*
easy to reproduce.
What should have happened:
Typos like this shouldn't crash the program -- it should give an error
indicating *why* it is confused. (the core dump comes from inside of
some scroll_1 routine, if I found the right symbol table.)
Mark Eichin
<eichin@athena.mit.edu>
SIPB Member & Project Athena ``Watchmaker''
