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29.0.60; Emacs crashes on setf symbol-name

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From: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.0.60; Emacs crashes on setf symbol-name
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 20:26:32 +0100

Execute the following in the scratch buffer:

(setf (aref (symbol-name 'car) 1) ?o)

Emacs crashes with a segmentation fault. Is this a well-known issue? I
could reproduce the problem on Emacs 27 and 29. Should there be some
mechanism to protect the strings of symbols?

I found the snippet on reddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/11ix6yu/ive_found_what_ive_been_looking_for/jb4ah5v/

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