bug#25883: 25.2; Frequent, but not reproducible, crash on startup

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I am not familiar enough with ERC support in Emacs -- is it possible that
> Emacs tries to display some partial byte stream that includes incomplete
> characters, i.e. the byte sequence for some character(s) is incomplete?

Not only possible, but likely.  What happens is this:

  1. Emacs starts up
  2. ERC begins initializing
  3. ERC logins in to ZNC
  4. ZNC starts playing black all the messages that came in since I last
     exited Emacs.
  5. Emacs sometimes survives this, sometimes crashes.

So it's quite possible that a "past message" ZNC is playing back contains a
partial byte sequence.

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