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27.1; Fatal error 11: Segmentation fault

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From: Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.1; Fatal error 11: Segmentation fault
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:03:52 +0100

Executing the following code (for example with `eval-last-sexp`) seg faults
my Emacs 27.1 with `emacs -Q`

(progn (defmacro watch-variable (symbol)
	 `(add-variable-watcher
	   ,symbol
	   (lambda nil
	     (message "variable changed %S" ,symbol)
	     (backtrace))))
       (watch-variable load-file-rep-suffixes))


In GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30, cairo version 1.15.10)
 of 2020-09-14 built on thinkpad
Repository revision: 86d8d76aa36037184db0b2897c434cdaab1a9ae8
Repository branch: HEAD
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12009000
System Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=/home/abdo/.local/ --with-json --with-modules
 --with-harfbuzz --with-compress-install --with-threads
 --with-included-regex --with-zlib --with-sound=alsa --without-gconf
 --with-mailutils --with-xft --with-xml2 --with-cairo --with-gconf
 --with-xwidgets --without-toolkit-scroll-bars 'CFLAGS=-O3 -mtune=native
 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer
 -I/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/include/
 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9''

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NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT
LIBOTF ZLIB GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS LIBSYSTEMD JSON
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  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
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  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
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  file-name-shadow-mode: t
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  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
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Memory information:
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-- Al

Message #10 received at 47462-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 47462-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47462: 27.1; Fatal error 11: Segmentation fault
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:41:20 +0300

> From: Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:03:52 +0100
> 
> Executing the following code (for example with `eval-last-sexp`) seg faults
> my Emacs 27.1 with `emacs -Q`
> 
> (progn (defmacro watch-variable (symbol)
> 	 `(add-variable-watcher
> 	   ,symbol
> 	   (lambda nil
> 	     (message "variable changed %S" ,symbol)
> 	     (backtrace))))
>        (watch-variable load-file-rep-suffixes))

Thanks, I added protection on master from this kind of invalid usage.
With Emacs 27, just don't do that.

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