GNU bug report logs - #18361
New 'sort' implementation can crash Emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:26:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: dmantipov <at> yandex.ru, 18361 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18361: New 'sort' implementation can crash Emacs
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 21:46:35 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> why are we importing the qsort_r module from gnulib

We're not.  Emacs is merely importing gnulib's stdlib module, which now 
has placeholders (unused by Emacs) for qsort_r, just as it has 
placeholders for all GNU functions it might define.
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