GNU bug report logs - #36431
Crash in marker.c:337

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 11:19:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #53 received at 36431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: wl <at> gnu.org, 36431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36431: Crash in marker.c:337
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 20:42:27 +0300
> Alright, so here one way to make this "transient" inconsistent state
> escape its transientness (should it be "transienticity"?) and crash Emacs:
> 
>     (catch 'toto
>       (let ((set-auto-coding-function (lambda (rest _) (throw 'toto nil))))
>         (erase-buffer)
>         (insert-file-contents "~/tmp/foo-c3c3.txt")))
>         
> where `~/tmp/foo-c3c3.txt` is a file that contains some invalid
> utf-8 byte sequence (in my case I used two bytes C3 together).

You are saying that decide_coding_unwind should do a better job?




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