bug#18610: 24.4.50; Specific file causing emacs to segfault upon opening

[K. Handa]

In article <83egulmdhz.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Yes, but what's the reason for having latin-extra-code-table in the
> first place?

I vaguely remember that it was a request from latin-1 users
who occasionally have to edit files created by Windows
users, and those files tend to contain those non-Laint-1
characters.

> > > Btw, it would be nice if these masks could be documented so that their
> > > meaning was clear.  I considered the possibility that the flags are
> > > not set correctly, but couldn't test that hypothesis given my
> > > insufficient knowledge of ISO-2022 details and variants.
> > 
> > Sorry for the poor comments in my code.  I'll work on it soon.

> TIA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiA ?  :-p

> OK.  Do you think this fix is safe enough to go to the release branch,
> so as to prevent Emacs 24.4 from crashing in these circumstances?

There may be more places where the similar change should be applied,
but, I think, at least that patch is safe enough.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@gnu.org