reproducible segfault

reproducible segfault

[D. Goel]

Greetings


emacs -q -no-site-file 

(read-event (append "a" "b"))
 C-x C-e 


PS: is the bug-gnu-emacs--> gnu.emacs.bug permanently taken off?  

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-03-22 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-gif'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: 
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Re: reproducible segfault

[John Paul Wallington]

D. Goel <deego@gnufans.org> wrote:

> emacs -q -no-site-file 
>
> (read-event (append "a" "b"))
>  C-x C-e 

This happens in RC branch, but not in HEAD.

In HEAD, message_with_string in xdisp.c uses CHECK_STRING macro on
`string' argument.  Maybe it should do so in RC too?  Could you test
this change?

--- /build-emacs/RC/emacs/src/xdisp.c.~1.671.4.30.~	Fri Aug 30 21:45:31 2002
+++ /build-emacs/RC/emacs/src/xdisp.c	Sun Oct 27 11:19:35 2002
@@ -6032,6 +6032,8 @@
      Lisp_Object string;
      int log;
 {
+  CHECK_STRING (string, 0);
+  
   if (noninteractive)
     {
       if (m)

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John Paul Wallington