GNU bug report logs - #29581
26.0.90; SVG file can cause emacs to crash (imagemagick)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: adam plaice <plaice.adam+lists <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Merged with 35725

Found in versions 26.0.90, 26.2

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 29581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Tobias Zawada <i_inbox <at> tn-home.de>
Cc: 29581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29581: 26.0.90;
 SVG file can cause emacs to crash (imagemagick)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:43:03 -0500

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Tobias Zawada <i_inbox <at> tn-home.de> wrote:

> Could a catch(...) around library calls avoid that emacs crashes?

What is "a catch(...)"? Do you mean the C++ construct[1]? Neither
imagemagick (afaik) nor Emacs are in C++. And even if they were C++,
catch does not help with segfaults.

[1]: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/try_catch
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