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25.1.50; gdb broken by (json-string-format "doesn't start with `\"'!")

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Message #50 received at 22012 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22012 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#22012: 25.1.50; gdb broken by (json-string-format "doesn't
 start with `\"'!")
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 16:48:29 +0100

> There are null bytes after `{"width":"4","alignment":"-1",'.  So it's
> a small wonder that json.el chokes.

I see.  Thunderbird choked as well, but I did not investigate.

> IOW, this is not a problem with
> either json.el not gdb-mi.el, but a much more fundamental problem with
> low-level Emacs functions that insert text into a buffer.

Maybe related to the loaddefs.el case.  That one stroke again here a few
days ago on my Debian machine.

> When did you last update from the emacs-25 branch?

This happend on my patched version of master/trunk.  So if anything we
could conclude that we may have been injecting null bytes already before
cutting the release branch.

martin

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