GNU bug report logs - #78738
(signal nil 5) crashes Emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>

Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 22:34:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> protonmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 78738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
Cc: pipcet <at> protonmail.com, dancol <at> dancol.org, 78738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78738: (signal nil 5) crashes Emacs
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:25:11 +0300

> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
> Cc: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> protonmail.com>,  dancol <at> dancol.org,  78738 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:46:10 +0200
> 
> On this matter, what is the code path that leads to a call to
> signal_or_quit with a nil error_symbol parameter?  According to the
> comment at eval.c:1912, it means that the memory is full but I cannot
> figure out how we can get there.

  void
  memory_full (size_t nbytes)
  {
    if (!initialized)
      fatal ("memory exhausted");
    [...]
    xsignal (Qnil, Vmemory_signal_data);
  }
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