Re: C file recoginzed as image file

[Andreas Schwab]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> IIUC, Emacs relies on the image libraries in the same way as Emacs
> relies on zlib (or is gzip?) to (un)compress *.gz files.

Emacs does not use zlib for (un)compressing, it calls gzip as an external
program.  A bug in gzip cannot affect Emacs beyond getting a stream of
garbage bytes from it.

Andreas.

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