GNU bug report logs - #65051
internal_equal manipulates symbols with position without checking symbols-with-pos-enabled.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 14:01:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 65051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65051: internal_equal manipulates symbols with position without checking symbols-with-pos-enabled.
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2023 23:30:15 -0400

> at the top level of the function.  Thus
>
>     (equal 'foo #<symbol foo at 42>)
>
> will return non-nil, regardless of the setting of
> `symbols-with-pos-enabled`.  It should return non-nil only when that
> flag variable is non-nil.  This is a bug.

Could you explain why you think it's a bug?


        Stefan
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