GNU bug report logs - #24911
25.1; Emacs hangs or crashes on use of read syntax for circular objects in IELM

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>

Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 20:05:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 24640

Found in version 25.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 24911 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24911: 25.1; Emacs hangs or crashes on use of read syntax for circular objects in IELM
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:08:05 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> > I get an error when I type the first line at IELM prompt:
>> >
>> >   *** Eval error ***  Symbol’s function definition is void: a
>> 
>> Yes, so do I. The hang happens when I navigate back to the first line
>> after receiving the error message and either edit it and press RET, or
>> press RET again without editing it.
>
> When I do that, I get "end of file during parsing".

Yes, I've seen that too. Is that the correct behavior? Shouldn't it
repeat the same error message as before?
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