From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21602: 25.0.50; coding system seg fault Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:36:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83612o3z9q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vbap7nv6.fsf@gnu.org> <83fv1s448p.fsf@gnu.org> <874mi8b1fs.fsf@igel.home> <837fn4407c.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbao9m18.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443875848 1333 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2015 12:37:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 12:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, 21602@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 14:37:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiM3r-0000zQ-Dz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:37:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38264 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiM3q-0001Dz-IS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59186) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiM3n-0001Dq-HV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:37:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiM3i-000424-Gw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:37:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:35705) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiM3i-000420-Di for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiM3i-0001Gd-A7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:37:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:37:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21602 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 21602-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21602.14438757714811 (code B ref 21602); Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:37:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21602) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Oct 2015 12:36:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52909 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiM2t-0001FX-It for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:43444) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiM2q-0001FN-Nu for 21602@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:36:10 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVN007008BWFC00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for 21602@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:29:01 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVN007S69CDZX10@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:29:01 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87vbao9m18.fsf@igel.home> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:107261 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: 21602@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:25:23 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Why would it be a bad idea to disallow setting of > > buffer-file-coding-system to an invalid value, as a subtle side effect > > of calling this function? By the time that later check is made, the > > damage is already done. > > > > IOW, why is it bad to be more defensive than is strictly necessary? > > buffer-file-coding-system is a user-settable variable, so the check is > useless. In this case, we set it programmatically, so the user could rightfully blame us.