GNU bug report logs - #27585
segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Steve Kemp <steve <at> steve.org.uk>

Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 06:29:02 UTC

Severity: minor

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at 27585 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: steve <at> steve.org.uk, 27585 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only
 backticks
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 18:37:37 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
> Cc: steve <at> steve.org.uk,  27585 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:31:35 +0200
> 
> > If we want to be pedantically accurate, then no "infinite" recursion
> > is ever truly infinite, since it will always stop when the system is
> > shut down, or the power fails, or the world ends, whichever happens
> > first.
> 
> This is not a useful way to categorize infinite recursion.

Neither is this hair-splitting.
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