GNU bug report logs - #40968
28.0.50; (apply nil)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; (apply nil)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:26:15 +0000

I'm very confused by the behavior of `apply' when given only a single
argument: when it's a nonempty list, the argument gets spread out and
passed to Ffuncall (I guess this might be useful sometimes). When it's
nil, Ffuncall gets called with nargs == 0 and Emacs crashes, at least
sometimes.

Should we fix the special case or raise apply's minimum argument count to 2?
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