bug#21602: 25.0.50; coding system seg fault

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Why would it be a bad idea to disallow setting of
> buffer-file-coding-system to an invalid value, as a subtle side effect
> of calling this function?  By the time that later check is made, the
> damage is already done.
>
> IOW, why is it bad to be more defensive than is strictly necessary?

buffer-file-coding-system is a user-settable variable, so the check is
useless.

Andreas.

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