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23.1; json-read-string crashes emacs with long string

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Message #16 received at 6214-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Carl Worth <cworth <at> cworth.org>
Cc: Notmuch mailing list <notmuch <at> notmuchmail.org>, 6214-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Dirk Hohndel <hohndel <at> infradead.org>
Subject: Re: bug#6214: 23.1; json-read-string crashes emacs with long string
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:07:10 -0400

Carl Worth <cworth <at> cworth.org> writes:

> A user of the emacs-based mail client, Notmuch [*], found that
> attempting to display a particular message would consistently
> causes a segmentation fault in emacs.
>
> I haven't attempted to debug this within gdb yet, (I'll have to get my
> hands on a build of emacs with debugging symbols first). But I wanted to
> share things right away, so that perhaps someone else could do further
> debugging and follow up.

Looks like a stack overflow in the `string' function.  I've checked in a
fix, thanks for the bug report.

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