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24.5; NULL pointer dereference in compute_motion(), indent.c

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From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pit <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24064: 24.5; NULL pointer dereference in compute_motion(),
 indent.c
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:37:17 -0400

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On 2016-07-25 18:02, Sergei Litvin wrote:
> I've prepared an elisp file to reproduce a crash:
> 
> 1) Open it and move cursor to the end of the file
> 2) Execute eval-buffer
> 3) Press C-l several times

Running this recipe does not cause a crash for me in GNU Emacs 25.1.50.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) of 2016-07-20.  Am I missing something?

> On 07/25/2016 07:24 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> From: Sergei Litvin <litvindev <at> gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 02:51:40 +0300
>>>
>>>
>>> struct position *
>>> compute_motion (ptrdiff_t from, ptrdiff_t frombyte, EMACS_INT fromvpos,
>>> EMACS_INT fromhpos, bool did_motion, ptrdiff_t to,
>>> EMACS_INT tovpos, EMACS_INT tohpos, EMACS_INT width,
>>> ptrdiff_t hscroll, int tab_offset, struct window *win)
>>> {
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> if (dp == buffer_display_table ())
>>> width_table = (VECTORP (BVAR (current_buffer, width_table))
>>> ? XVECTOR (BVAR (current_buffer, width_table))->contents
>>> : 0);
>>> else
>>> /* If the window has its own display table, we can't use the width
>>> run cache, because that's based on the buffer's display table. */
>>> width_table = 0; // initialize it with 0 (current buffer has no display table)
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> if (width_cache)
>>> {
>>> /* Is this character part of the current run? If so, extend
>>> the run. */
>>> if (pos - 1 == width_run_end
>>> && XFASTINT (width_table[c]) == width_run_width) // dereference width_table here, and crash
>>> width_run_end = pos;
>> Did you actually see such a crash, and if so, can you show a recipe
>> for reproducing that?
>>
>> Thanks.
> 

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