Re: [PATCH] * src/eval.c: Stop checking for nvars, and use only CONSP

[Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 7:15 AM Naoya Yamashita <conao3@gmail.com> wrote:
> My patched Emacs does not segfault the Pip example either.
>
>     (let ((cons-cell '((a 2) (b 3))))
>       (eval `(let ((x (setcdr ',cons-cell nil))
>                . ,cons-cell)
>            (message "foo"))))
>     ;;=> foo

Sorry, I had misunderstood what you were changing about the code. This crashes:

(let ((cell '((a 3))))
  (eval `(let ((a (setcdr ',cell ',cell)) . ,cell)
           (message "foo"))))

(Please keep in mind such crashes are hard to predict; if I wrote my
example the way I intended, it should exhaust the stack on pretty much
all machines, but it might still work, by sheer accident, on yours).

Pip