GNU bug report logs - #31146
cl-prin1 infloops when printing list with circularity in the tail

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>

Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:01:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in versions 26.1, 27.0.50

Fixed in versions 27.1, 26.2

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 31146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 31146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31146: 27.0.50;
 ielm via cl-prin1 infloops when printing circular object
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 22:26:00 +0100

Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Right, though the bug is really about cl-prin1, ielm is just incidental.

Indeed.  The only significance of ielm I was alluding to in this case is
that, as a presumably popular interactive environment, it probably
shouldn't infloop, regardless of implementation.

> Here's a patch.

Thanks for working on this,

-- 
Basil
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