Re: bug#1380: 23.0.60; file content causes CVS emacs to crash

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:25:07 +0900 Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> wrote: 

KH> In article <87myfuhmrk.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>, Chong Yidong 
<cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
>> > The file content in a file causes Emacs to crash as soon as it's
>> > opened.  Tested with "emacs -q file".

>> Looks like the charbuf in the coding structure is overflowing.  The
>> following rough patch prevents this overflow and the crash, but maybe
>> there is a deeper bug.  The comments in coding.c:6610 says "We are sure
>> that the number of data is less than the size of coding->charbuf."  This
>> bug comes about due to that faile assumption.

>> Handa-san, what do you think?

KH> I found that it's a bug in detect/decode_coding_iso_2022,
KH> and just installed a fix.

Fix confirmed here.

Thanks
Ted