giftopnm in shell window segfaults on redhat 8.0

[Bruce Robertson]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-08-28 on astest
configured using `configure  --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu 
--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr 
--exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc 
--datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib 
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop 
--with-sound'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

in shell window, executing 'giftopnm reference.gif' with output going
into window, emacs segfaults.

reference.gif is attached to email.

M-x s h e l l <return> g i f t o p n m 
SPC r e f e r e n c e . g i f 

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/emacs

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x08122d1a in compact_small_strings ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x08122d1a in compact_small_strings ()
#1  0x08125b93 in gc_sweep ()
#2  0x08124d08 in Fgarbage_collect ()
#3  0x0813924d in Ffuncall ()
#4  0x081637c3 in Fbyte_code ()
#5  0x0813948e in funcall_lambda ()
#6  0x08138f9e in Ffuncall ()
#7  0x08138b15 in run_hook_with_args ()
#8  0x08138950 in Frun_hook_with_args ()
#9  0x08139231 in Ffuncall ()
#10 0x081637c3 in Fbyte_code ()
#11 0x0813948e in funcall_lambda ()
#12 0x08138f9e in Ffuncall ()
#13 0x081387de in Fapply ()
#14 0x08138c7a in apply1 ()
#15 0x08168100 in read_process_output_call ()
#16 0x081372f0 in internal_condition_case_1 ()
#17 0x081683a3 in read_process_output ()
#18 0x08167acf in wait_reading_process_input ()
#19 0x0805707f in sit_for ()
#20 0x080df501 in read_char ()
#21 0x080e5914 in read_key_sequence ()
#22 0x080dd144 in command_loop_1 ()
#23 0x081371ea in internal_condition_case ()
#24 0x080dce2d in command_loop_2 ()
#25 0x08136d59 in internal_catch ()
#26 0x080dcdd7 in command_loop ()
#27 0x080dc89e in recursive_edit_1 ()
#28 0x080dc9d2 in Frecursive_edit ()
#29 0x080db27b in main ()
#30 0x420158f7 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb)

[brucer@theodolite graphics]$ giftopnm --version
giftopnm: Using libpbm from Netpbm Version: Netpbm 9.24
giftopnm: Compiled Sun Jun 23 17:18:33 EDT 2002 by user "root"
giftopnm: BSD defined
giftopnm: RGB_ENV='RGBDEF'
giftopnm: RGBENV= 'RGBDEF' (env vbl is unset)
[brucer@theodolite graphics]$ 

Recent input:
C-h h C-h ? SPC SPC C-x C-h a b u g <return> M-x r 
e p o r t - e m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Loading cus-edit...done
Loading server...done
Loading compile...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Note: file is write protected
Loading view...done

Loading apropos...done
Type C-x 4 b RET to restore the other window.  C-M-v to scroll the help.
Loading emacsbug...done

reference.gif
Description: small gif file