Subject: Re: bug#30489: 26.0.91; [PATCH] Data associated with json-readtable-error not a list

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:07:01 +0200

> From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 05:52:06 -0400
> 
> >> > -    `(cond ,@res (t (signal 'json-readtable-error ,char)))))
> >> > +    `(cond ,@res (t (signal 'json-readtable-error ,(list char))))))
> >> 
> >> > When signalling json-readtable-error, the macro json-readtable-dispatch
> >> > passes the unrecognised character as error data verbatim, rather than as
> >> > a list.  Attached is a patch which fixes this.
> >> 
> >> Should this be applied to emacs-26?  It seems to fix a regression
> >> relative to Emacs 25 (where this error just had `nil' as the data) and
> >> the patch looks safe enough.
> >
> > What change(s) introduced the regression?
> 
> [1: 9314e6c56e]: 2017-09-04 03:40:30 -0400
>   Embed JSON readtable into json-read
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=9314e6c56e248a5060a6c125e2088c4fbffe123b

Thanks, then the patch in question is OK for the release branch.