Subject: 24.0.92; Visiting the Guile v2.0.3 tarball shows binary garbage

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:10:16 +0200

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and
the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give a recipe
starting from `emacs -Q':

 emacs -Q
 C-x C-f guile-2.0.3.tar.gz RET

Instead of the tarball contents, you will be presented with the
literal binary contents of the archive, and the mode line indicates
that Emacs thinks it's a shell script ("Shell-script[sh]").

The same happens if you gunzip the compressed tarball and visit the
resulting tar file.

I tried with a couple of other tarballs, and they work as expected.
So there's something in this specific tarball that triggers the bug.

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
d:/gnu/bzr/emacs/trunk/etc/DEBUG.

In GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2012-01-14 on HOME-C4E4A596F7
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt'

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: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1255
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Shell-script

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> C-x C-f <M-backspace> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> 
<M-backspace> u s <tab> a r <tab> g u i l <tab> . g 
z <return> M-x r e p o r t - e m a c <tab> <return

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
uncompressing guile-2.0.3.tar.gz...done
Setting up indent for shell type sh
setting up indent stuff
Indentation variables are now local.
Indentation setup for shell type sh

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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