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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 8ba156f: Attempt to avoid crashes in plist-member
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:42:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k2qro5eg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvoag360ib.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org>

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:07:00 -0400
> 
> >     Attempt to avoid crashes in plist-member
>     
> >     * src/fns.c (Fplist_member): Don't call QUIT between a CONSP test
> >     and a call to XCDR.  (Bug#21655)
> 
> I have no objection to the patch itself, but I must say that I wonder
> how it can avoid crashes.  IOW why would calling QUIT between a CONSP test
> and a call to XCDR be dangerous?

QUIT could call some Lisp.

How else would you explain a segfault in that loop?



  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-13  2:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20151012170324.17966.77@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <E1ZlgVQ-0004gO-Em@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-10-13  1:07   ` [Emacs-diffs] master 8ba156f: Attempt to avoid crashes in plist-member Stefan Monnier
2015-10-13  2:42     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-10-13  3:36       ` Paul Eggert
2015-10-13 14:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-13 15:08           ` David Kastrup
2015-10-13 15:32             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-13 15:50               ` David Kastrup
2015-10-13 15:21           ` Paul Eggert
2015-10-13 15:34             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-13 19:05           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-13  8:00       ` Andreas Schwab
2015-10-13 15:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-13 10:26       ` David Kastrup
2015-10-13 13:23         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-13 13:41           ` David Kastrup
2015-10-13 15:16         ` Eli Zaretskii

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