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28.0.90; Infinite loop in add_row_entry

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 52446 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52446: 28.0.90; Infinite loop in add_row_entry
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 09:32:40 +0200

> Resent-From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
> Resent-Sender: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 13:15:29 +0800
> From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Emacs froze while I was scrolling through a large image with `C-n'.  The
> source of the freeze was an infinite loop in this part of
> `add_row_entry':
> 
>     while (entry && !row_equal_p (entry->row, row, 1))
> --->  entry = entry->next;
> 
> The problem seems to be that `entry' points to the same address as
> `entry->next'.

Are you sure?  This more-or-less "can't happen".  How did you see that
this was the problem?

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