bug#18306: 24.4.50; emacs 24.4.5 hangs in c-mode with '[' character

bug#18306: 24.4.50; emacs 24.4.5 hangs in c-mode with '[' character

[nick]

From: nick <nick@wordtronix.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: 24.4.50; emacs 24.4.5 hangs in c-mode with '[' character
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While in c-mode writing the line: char s[]; emacs hangs without update.
Obviously not happening in this bugreport mode. :/ .
file started with : emacs -Q polak_calc.c
same behavior with: emacs polak_calc.c

This emacs was build from src on Fedora 20 from current github srcs.
Only warning was for a GTK multiple window message.

Tried: C-h k [ and received output : [ is undefined
Tried: make distclean , configure make su make install
Have not tried GDB or other debug methods while running.








In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9)
  of 2014-08-20 on localhost.localdomain
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.11404000
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS
NOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB

Important settings:
   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: C/l

Minor modes in effect:
   tooltip-mode: t
   electric-indent-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
polak_calc.c has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
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mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils cc-langs cl-loaddefs cl-lib
cc-mode cc-fonts easymenu cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align
cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook
vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image
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hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
gfilenotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting
move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 107055 6788)
  (symbols 48 20371 0)
  (miscs 40 43 110)
  (strings 32 17650 4546)
  (string-bytes 1 597372)
  (vectors 16 11719)
  (vector-slots 8 412326 5631)
  (floats 8 70 262)
  (intervals 56 241 0)
  (buffers 976 12)
  (heap 1024 24438 1023))

bug#18306: 24.4.50; emacs 24.4.5 hangs in c-mode with '[' character

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Nick.

nick <nick@wordtronix.org> wrote:
> While in c-mode writing the line: char s[]; emacs hangs without update.
> Obviously not happening in this bugreport mode. :/ .

Yes, there was an infinite loop down in the fontification code.  I think
it's fixed now.  Would you please try it out and confirm that it is
indeed fixed.  Either download and build the latest trunk, or apply this
patch:

diff -r 2cd4e65a2f5a cc-fonts.el
--- a/cc-fonts.el	Sat Aug 02 18:12:32 2014 +0000
+++ b/cc-fonts.el	Sat Aug 23 10:36:15 2014 +0000
@@ -1088,14 +1088,11 @@
 	    ;; initializing brace lists.
 	    (let (found)
 	      (while
-	    	  (and (setq found
-	    		     (c-syntactic-re-search-forward
-	    		      "[;,]\\|\\s)\\|\\'\\|\\(=\\|\\s(\\)" limit t t))
-	    	       (eq (char-before) ?\[))
-	    	(backward-char)
-	    	(c-safe (c-forward-sexp 1))
-	    	(setq found nil)
-	    	(setq brackets-after-id t))
+		  (and (setq found (c-syntactic-re-search-forward
+			     "[;,]\\|\\s)\\|\\'\\|\\(=\\|\\s(\\)" limit t t))
+		       (eq (char-before) ?\[)
+		       (c-go-up-list-forward))
+		     (setq brackets-after-id t))
 	      found))
 
       (setq next-pos (match-beginning 0)


Thanks for taking to trouble to report this bug.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).