GNU bug report logs - #57804
An infinite loop in a `fontify-region' function causes Emacs to hang indefinitely

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:07:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 57804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#57804: An infinite loop in a `fontify-region' function causes Emacs to hang indefinitely
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 22:38:17 +0000

>
> who then when presented with a real-world failure suggests the aggrieved 
> module ought to accommodate his long lines fix
>

It was clear from the very beginning that the long line fixes would break 
some code in unusual circumstances, and that such code would have to be 
adapted.  That is unavoidable, except of course with frozen programs such 
as the TeX engine.
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