From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>, John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Cc: 24206@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24206: 25.1; Curly quotes generate invalid strings, leading to a segfault
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 11:32:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8360r5dq6o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkQq6oU+qpoQrC2+CipGYiGDYfac6BB4a+zMWUxTPvyXSg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Thu, 11 Aug 2016 23:51:41 +0000)
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 23:51:41 +0000
> Cc: 24206@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Do., 11. Aug. 2016 um 13:05 Uhr:
>
> > From: Phil <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:55:05 -0700
> >
> >
> > Build is from the emacs-25 branch.
> >
> > $ ./emacs -Q -eval "(progn (defface test nil \"\`\\240'\") (customize-face 'test))"
> >
> > character.h:703: Emacs fatal error: assertion failed: CHAR_VALID_P (ch)
> > Fatal error 6: Aborted
> >
> > I think this is serious enough to be release-blocking. Seen in the wild
> > with older versions of show-wspace.el.
>
> Please show the real-life example where this rears its ugly head. The
> recipe (which is appreciated) is obscure enough to be easily avoided,
> so it doesn't yet convince me this should block a release. There's
> always one more crash out there.
>
> Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (supported until 2019) contains a package emacs-goodies-el, which contains a file
> show-wspace.el, which contains a face with the docstring "*Face for highlighting non-breaking spaces
> (`\240')in Font-Lock mode." Attempting to customize that face leads to the segfault.
John, do you want us to wait with the next RC until this is fixed?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-13 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-11 18:55 bug#24206: 25.1; Curly quotes generate invalid strings, leading to a segfault Phil
2016-08-11 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-11 23:51 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-08-13 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-08-13 12:25 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-08-14 6:33 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-14 4:54 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-14 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-14 14:51 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-14 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-15 2:04 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-15 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-15 16:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-08-15 18:43 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-15 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-15 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-15 19:05 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-15 20:41 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-16 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-16 15:25 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-16 16:09 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-08-18 16:30 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-08-18 16:41 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-18 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-16 17:37 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-16 17:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-16 17:55 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-16 17:57 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-16 18:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-08-16 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-16 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-16 21:07 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-17 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-17 17:41 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-17 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-17 20:52 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-18 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-18 18:33 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-18 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-17 17:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-08-14 15:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-08-15 1:53 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-15 1:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-08-15 2:05 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-14 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-14 20:16 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-15 1:12 ` Paul Eggert
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