autoload bug

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From: mic
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1989 02:24

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An emacs (18.55.4) autoload bug bit me.  To repeat:

	% emacs -q
enter:	(symbol-function 'rmail)^J
yields	(autoload "rmail" 178212 t nil)
enter:	(apply (symbol-function 'rmail) '("RMAIL"))^J
yields	Segmentation fault

Note (apply ...) does not know what function to call after loading the
file.  This bug is easy to avoid, just do:

	(apply 'rmail '("RMAIL"))
or	(rmail "RMAIL")

Still, anything that causes a crash is a serious bug.

-- 
Michelangelo (Mic) Grigni -- Gradual Student, MIT Applied Math

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