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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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 27585 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27585: Fwd: Re: bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 15:47:32 -0700

[Sending this again since the bug was archived and read-only earlier today.]

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Subject: Re: bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 11:32:44 -0700
From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Philipp Stephani wrote:
> Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> schrieb am Fr., 14. Juli 2017 um 14:10 Uhr:
> 
>> As Eli and Daniel mentioned, this area of Emacs cannot be 100% reliable
>>
> 
> Why? Surely Emacs could switch away from recursion for the reader and the
> evaluator to an explicitly-managed stack. That would be a bit of work, but
> certainly not impossible.

You are right, on both points. By "this area of Emacs" I was assuming the 
current recursive implementation. It's not the only place Emacs recurses, though.
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