Subject: bug#20098: 25.0.50; eval-expression does not return result of evaluation

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 02:32:12 -0400

raman wrote:

> M-: (eval-expression)
> In the minibuffer 
> (setq f 1)
> Prints 1
> But f is set to "eval-expression" not 1 as it used to be.

That would be a very strange error.
I cannot reproduce this problem in current master.
Note that your build is 3 months old.
It also seems to correspond to no known revision AFAICS:

  git show f9b1a2a7e0bf5ffd71f43f257f1b13e8bfeab875
  fatal: bad object f9b1a2a7e0bf5ffd71f43f257f1b13e8bfeab875

> In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2014-12-25 on labrador
> Repository revision: f9b1a2a7e0bf5ffd71f43f257f1b13e8bfeab875