GNU bug report logs - #24206
25.1; Curly quotes generate invalid strings, leading to a segfault

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Phil <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, 24206 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, nicolas <at> petton.fr
Subject: bug#24206: 25.1; Curly quotes generate invalid strings, leading to a segfault
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 21:44:25 +0300

On 08/16/2016 08:55 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> John Wiegley wrote:
>> I'm rather disturbed by patches being added to emacs-25 which "fail
>> spectacularly".
>
> So am I.

I'm disturbed by the lack of tests (in all proposed patches, as well as 
the one that was pushed), even when this bug report shows that the 
function is question is easy to get wrong.
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