GNU bug report logs - #15948
24.3.50; buf_charpos_to_bytepos crash

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 15841, 15893, 15898, 15901, 15930, 15931, 15952

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 15948 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15948: 24.3.50; buf_charpos_to_bytepos crash
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:27:26 +0200

> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:27:52 -0500
> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 
> I got a crash because find_newline called buf_charpos_to_bytepos with
> a charpos bigger than BUF_Z.  It was in an Rmail summary buffer.

This is bug #15841, it was fixed in bzr revision 115138.  Your build
is older than that, so please update soon to avoid this nasty
problem.  In the meantime, you can turn off cache-long-scans by
default, or even rebuild after doing that in buffer.c.
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 174 days ago.

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