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26.0.91; Crash when traversing a `stream-of-directory-files'

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, john.b.mastro <at> gmail.com, nicolas <at> petton.fr, 30626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30626: 26.0.91; Crash when traversing a `stream-of-directory-files'
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:05:58 +0200

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,  john.b.mastro <at> gmail.com,  nicolas <at> petton.fr,  30626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:28:22 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> The goal was to find out which variable holds a reference to the
> >> entire long stream, right?  So it sounds like a pointer to it is kept
> >> in an automatic variable on the stack of exec_byte_code, right?  Which
> >> kinda makes sense, since the stream is still being processed, I
> >> think.
> 
> Yeah, but which variable exactly?  I'd like to find it and add 'X =
> Qnil;' to confirm we've found where it is.

I don't think you will be able to tell without stepping through the
byte-code interpreter code, keeping track of what it stores where.

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