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29.0.60; Emacs crashes on setf symbol-name

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Message #98 received at 62009 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: philipk <at> posteo.net, michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, mail <at> daniel-mendler.de,
 gregory <at> heytings.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 62009 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 arstoffel <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#62009: 29.0.60; Emacs crashes on setf symbol-name
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:19:03 +0100

>>>>> On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:12:25 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:

    >> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
    >> Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>,  Philip Kaludercic
    >> <philipk <at> posteo.net>,  michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,
    >> monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,  62009 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  Eli Zaretskii
    >> <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
    >> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 12:30:48 +0100
    >> 
    >> diff --git a/src/lisp.h b/src/lisp.h
    >> index 1276285e2f2..80bbb047824 100644
    >> --- a/src/lisp.h
    >> +++ b/src/lisp.h
    >> @@ -1685,6 +1685,8 @@ SREF (Lisp_Object string, ptrdiff_t index)
    >> INLINE void
    >> SSET (Lisp_Object string, ptrdiff_t index, unsigned char new)
    >> {
    >> +  if (XSTRING (string)->u.s.size_byte == -2)
    >> +    Fsignal (Qsetting_constant, string);

    Eli> "Setting constant" is misleading.

True. I was lazy and picked the first one I found.

    Eli> And again, why do that at all?  It's a waste of cycles, incurred on
    Eli> _everyone_, for an extremely rare use case that is explicitly
    Eli> discouraged.  We are not the TSA, and should not adopt their policy of
    Eli> punishing the innocent 99.99% on behalf of a handful of villains.

I wasnʼt seriously proposing it for inclusion, just pointing out that
it was possible.

Robert
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