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28.0.50; Segfault on opening a particular message in Gnus in terminal/tty

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 44506 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bandali <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#44506: 28.0.50; Segfault on opening a particular message in Gnus in terminal/tty
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:31:44 +0200

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
> Cc: bandali <at> gnu.org,  44506 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2020 21:48:10 -0800
> 
> I've tried today to come up with a recipe that doesn't involve
> installing EBDB, but so far have failed. I tried edebugging the various
> message-displaying functions to see exactly what was causing the bug,
> but got no segfault so long as the functions were instrumented.
> 
> Basically EBDB attaches a hook to `gnus-article-prepare-hook', which
> uses `gnus-fetch-original-field' to pull some data out of the article,
> looks for records that match that data, and displays the records.
> 
> With "emacs -Q" there are no records to search or display, so I assumed
> it must be the header-access functions causing the problem. But I wrote
> a function that does most of what EBDB does, without actually using
> EBDB, and it caused no segfault, so I don't know what's going on there,
> sorry.

Thank you for your efforts.

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