GNU bug report logs - #38912
27.0.60; PDumper meets segmentation fault when evil is loaded

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: NiwTinray <niwtrx <at> icloud.com>

Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 03:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 32503

Found in versions 26.1, 27.0.60

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: "Daniel Colascione" <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: niwtrx <at> icloud.com, 38912 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eliz <at> gnu.org, pipcet <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#38912: 27.0.60; PDumper meets segmentation fault when evil is loaded
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 18:43:45 -0500

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  > This consensus is wrong. We need to make equality imply sxhash equality or
  > very odd things (like this) will happen.

I agree.  The basic idea of sxhash is that comparing hashes is a quick
way to detect most cases where two values are not equal.  If sxhash
comparison gives false negatives, that method is not trustworthy.

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