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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, mail@daniel-mendler.de,
	monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 62009@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62009: 29.0.60; Emacs crashes on setf symbol-name
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:11:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a60l13p2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8j9zl3i.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:11:13 +0000)

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>,  michael_heerdegen@web.de,
>   monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  62009@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:11:13 +0000
> 
> > AFAICT, they _are_ frozen.  These names are in read-only memory, where
> > you cannot write.  That's why Emacs crashes, AFAIU: the code is trying
> > to write to protected memory.
> >
> > Just don't do that, cause it's gonna hurt...
> 
> Is it not possible to detect this before the illegal memory access, and
> raise a signal in Emacs Lisp?

It won't be easy, if at all possible.  And I'm not sure we even want
to do that.  What would be the purpose of supporting such a use of
Emacs?





  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-10  7:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-06 19:26 bug#62009: 29.0.60; Emacs crashes on setf symbol-name Daniel Mendler
2023-03-07  4:40 ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-07 15:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-07 17:08   ` Daniel Mendler
2023-03-07 17:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-09 21:11       ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-03-10  7:11         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-03-10  8:45           ` Augusto Stoffel
2023-03-10  8:47             ` Augusto Stoffel
2023-03-10 11:50               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 12:00                 ` Daniel Mendler
2023-03-10 12:35                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 12:45                     ` Daniel Mendler
2023-03-10 12:57                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 13:08                         ` Daniel Mendler
2023-03-10 15:02                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-11 15:16                     ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-11 15:37                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-18 22:46                         ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-19  6:03                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-19 21:20                             ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-10 11:49             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10  9:40           ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-10 10:31             ` Daniel Mendler
2023-03-10 10:59               ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-10 11:09                 ` Daniel Mendler
2023-03-10 11:23                   ` Augusto Stoffel
2023-03-10 12:09                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 11:30                   ` Robert Pluim
2023-03-10 11:36                     ` Daniel Mendler
2023-03-10 12:13                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 12:24                         ` Daniel Mendler
2023-03-10 22:01                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-10 11:57                     ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-10 12:12                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 13:19                       ` Robert Pluim
2023-03-11  7:07                     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-13  8:07                       ` Robert Pluim
2023-03-13  8:28                         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-13 11:47                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-13 11:50                             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-13 11:46                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 11:59                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 11:53             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 11:59               ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-11  7:07               ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-11  7:47                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 18:56           ` Philip Kaludercic

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