Do you mean this is a new way to repro? Which replaces the old? (For all versions, or just the latest one you tried?)
If we are to finally report this upstream, can you provide a brief use case to assess the priority of this? If it's just an academic curiosity, I don't really see the point; but even in that case, it would make more sense for it to sit in the Emacs bug tracker where the people who can do something about it at least have a chance to stumble into it. Here, it's not doing anyone any good. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to emacs23 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508618 Title: Setting max-specpdl-size of 34295 allows segfaults with 'simple' elisp Status in emacs23 package in Ubuntu: New Status in emacs24 package in Ubuntu: New Status in emacs25 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: emacs23 Setting max-specpdl-size higher than 34295, and then running the following code results in a segfault of emacs. I am running a system of mostly 9.04 with some packages (such as this one) upgraded. I know it's kind of pushing emacs to the limit, but still; this seems like an arbitrary limit on emacs' otherwise diety-like functionality. What should happen is emacs should continue to fail to execute with "file-truename: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size" as it does below 34295., or at the very least when setting max-specpdl-size higher than 34295 it should warn you that you are making some kind of error if this is not acceptable. example code: (defun por (pcurrent pb numberleft) (if (= numberleft 0) pcurrent (por (- (+ pcurrent pb) (* pcurrent pb)) pb (- numberleft 1)))) (por 0 0.01 10000) (setq max-lisp-eval-depth 1000000) ; this may be necessary, but doesn't appear to be the problem (setq max-specpdl-size 34295) ; setting this lower results in predictable, expected behaviour - emacs refuses to run the result, citing max-specpdl-size not high enough. Setting this higher (like...34296), results in a segfault of emacs emacs23: Installé : 23.1+1-4ubuntu3 Candidat : 23.1+1-4ubuntu3 Table de version : *** 23.1+1-4ubuntu3 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 Package: emacs23 23.1+1-4ubuntu3 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: emacs23 Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic x86_64 UnreportableReason: Ceci n'est pas un authentique paquet Ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs23/+bug/508618/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
