Re: invalid buffer-file-name crashes emacs

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:18

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dan@math.uiuc.edu writes:
 > Do this to make emacs 18.58 crash with an illegal instruction on a vaxstation
 > II running Ultrix 2.0.
 > 
 > (find-file "junk.foo")
 > (setq buffer-file-name (cons "asdf" "qwer"))
 > (insert "asdf")

Confirmed this on a Sun SLC running 4.1.2.  Made the kernel howl
in pain...

sendsig: bad signal stack pid=22240, sig=11
sigsp = 0xebf17898, action = 0x75400, upc = 0x66848

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