GNU bug report logs - #59038
loading this base64 file makes emacs -Q 28.2 peg a core infinitely

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Chris Hecker <checker <at> d6.com>

Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2022 02:49:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #50 received at 59038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>,
 59038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, checker <at> d6.com, acm <at> muc.de
Subject: Re: bug#59038: loading this base64 file makes emacs -Q 28.2 peg a
 core infinitely
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 23:41:26 +0000

>>> This is reproducible with master 
>>> fd3f51b7c3a6649ee3db12d33b056b1afdbfa7e9.
>> 
>> What is reproducible, exactly?  Visiting the file is almost 
>> instantaneous here, in Emacs 29.
>
> Visiting the file, yes.  Try C-e, and you'll see that Emacs hangs.  At 
> least it does, here.
>

Another recipe:
emacs -Q
M-: (set-frame-width nil 100)
C-x C-f Looper.h RET

Note that this bug has nothing to do with long lines.  That file opens 
just fine in other modes (e.g. Fundamental, Elisp, Text), even with long 
line optimizations turned off.
This bug report was last modified 2 years and 198 days ago.

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