GNU bug report logs - #23949
25.0.95; Regression in handling error caused by (string-match-p "." nil)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 16294, 24166

Found in versions 25.0.95, 24.3.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 23949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23949: 25.0.95; Regression in handling error caused by (string-match-p "." nil)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:14:09 +0300

> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:29:25 +0000
> 
> Lisp Backtrace:
> "read-from-string" (0xffff3a30)
> "help-function-arglist" (0xffff3f88)

This says it tried to read from a string.  What string was that?  And
why does help-function-arglist try to read from that string?

> #9 0x0000000000623fab in Fread_from_string (string=57797668, start=0, end=0) at lread.c:2075

In this frame, please show the value of 'string', like this:

 (gdb) frame 9
 (gdb) p string
 (gdb) xstring
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