[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#465462: Bug#465462: Bug#465462: /usr/bin/wish8.5: segfault for wish

[Larry W. Virden]

--- Sergei Golovan <sgolovan at nes.ru> wrote:

>  Instead of trying
> only
> one font (which fits best) this patched Tk tries several matches
> untill success (but still fails if no usable fonts are found).
> 

Does your version core dump when no usable fonts are found, or just
return an error?

About the only legit time for an interpreter to core dump during an
error is if the resources needed to throw an error are not available
- and that, in general, would seem to me to be a pretty rare occurance...

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