GNU bug report logs - #1106
last-coding-system-used may be nil in load-with-code-conversion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: domq <at> google.com (Dominique Quatravaux)

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 1106 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: domq <at> google.com (Dominique Quatravaux)
Cc: 1106 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: last-coding-system-used may be nil in load-with-code-conversion
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:34:47 -0400

> Putting the following in one's .emacs causes Emacs to crash on
> startup:
> 
> (setq file-coding-system-alist nil)
> (load "/dev/null")
>
> This happens because mule.el wrongly assumes that
> last-coding-system-used cannot be null on line 84.
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2008-09-05 on vernadsky, modified by Ubuntu

I can't reproduce the crash with Emacs 22.2.  Maybe it's due to a Debian
change?

Could you check if the crash happens with a vanille Emacs 22.2
downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ ?

Also, does the crash happen with Emacs CVS (or the Debian emacs-snapshot
package)?

Thanks.
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