GNU bug report logs - #32552
Core dump of Emacs 26.1 due to elisp variable definition

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Barabosch, Thomas" <thomas.barabosch <at> fkie.fraunhofer.de>

Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 06:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 26.2

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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Barabosch\, Thomas" <thomas.barabosch <at> fkie.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: 32552 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32552: Core dump of Emacs 26.1 due to elisp variable definition
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:22:12 +0300

> From: "Barabosch, Thomas" <thomas.barabosch <at> fkie.fraunhofer.de>
> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:05:42 +0200
> Cc: "Barabosch, Thomas" <thomas.barabosch <at> fkie.fraunhofer.de>
> 
> the following piece of elisp crashes Emacs 26.1 (core dump):
> 
> > ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
> > (defvar ;dead-beef* (symbol-function #'dead-beef)
> >     "Some random description")
> 
> Note a couple of things:
> 
> - lexical binding seems to be important (otherwise no crash)
> 
> - ; seems to be the major cause
> 
> - the variable definition must be split across two lines

Thanks, should be fixed now on the emacs-26 branch.
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