bug#32552: Core dump of Emacs 26.1 due to elisp variable definition

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Barabosch, Thomas" <thomas.barabosch@fkie.fraunhofer.de>
> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:05:42 +0200
> Cc: "Barabosch, Thomas" <thomas.barabosch@fkie.fraunhofer.de>
> 
> the following piece of elisp crashes Emacs 26.1 (core dump):
> 
> > ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
> > (defvar ;dead-beef* (symbol-function #'dead-beef)
> >     "Some random description")
> 
> Note a couple of things:
> 
> - lexical binding seems to be important (otherwise no crash)
> 
> - ; seems to be the major cause
> 
> - the variable definition must be split across two lines

Thanks, should be fixed now on the emacs-26 branch.