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25.1; crash during message, infinite recursion

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Message #44 received at 25203 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org>
To: eliz <at> gnu.org
Cc: htl10 <at> users.sourceforge.net, hintak.leung <at> gmail.com, 25203 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25203: 25.1; crash during message, infinite recursion
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:08:55 +0100 (CET)

>> > In fact, any I/O that might require encoding should be completely
>> > avoided in pre-write-conversion.
>> 
>> Is this documented?  If yes, I've missed it.
> 
> Frankly, it should be obvious: you are recursively invoking the same
> operation that is being processed by the calling function.

Well, `cjk-coding' worked flawlessly for years.  So it's not *that*
obvious.  In other words, there are rather recent changes w.r.t. to
`message' that make the once working code crash.

> I added a note about this to the doc string of define-coding-system.

Thanks.

> Any reasons not to close this bug report, now that all of its
> aspects have been addressed?

Yes, please do.


    Werner

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