GNU bug report logs - #61514
30.0.50; sadistically long xml line hangs emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Mark A. Hershberger" <mah <at> everybody.org>

Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: mah <at> everybody.org, 61514 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#61514: 30.0.50; sadistically long xml line hangs emacs
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 14:33:25 +0200

> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 02:05:59 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
> cc: mah <at> everybody.org, 61514 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 
>     Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> 
> Here's a patch that makes it modifiable, and "fixes" (in the sense of 
> failing with a "Stack overflow in regexp matcher" instead of inflooping) 
> the current bug.
> 
> WDYT?

I'm against it.  I'd rather try to fix what nXML does and/or the
regexp it uses.
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