GNU bug report logs - #6214
23.1; json-read-string crashes emacs with long string

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Carl Worth <cworth <at> cworth.org>

Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 16:36:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.1

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 6214 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Notmuch mailing list <notmuch <at> notmuchmail.org>, Carl Worth <cworth <at> cworth.org>, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 <at> fel.cvut.cz>
Subject: bug#6214: 23.1; json-read-string crashes emacs with long string
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:27:25 -0400

Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> writes:

> Hmm, there is a problem, though.  If we attempt to avoid a stack
> overflow in `apply' by using the heap rather than the stack to store
> large numbers of arguments, those arguments are invisible to the
> stack-marking gargbage collector.

Never mind, I got confused.  SAFE_ALLOCA uses record_unwind_protect, so
it's gc safe.
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