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    > For protection against bugs in libraries, we could consider writing
    > code in Emacs to thoroughly validate an image before displaying it.
    > That too is too much for before the release, but it would be the best
    > solution for after the release.


    Should not that code be in the image libraries instead?

It would be good for the image libraries to do that.
And we might independently want to make Emacs do that,
so as not to trust the image libraries.