Commit fdb4f6635351b3f3b15b5e948c39e9efcdd615df causing Emacs to crash for me

[Timothy Harper]

On Aug 24, 2011, at 6:19 AM, Vegard Øye wrote:

> On 2011-08-24 03:48 +0200, Timothy Harper wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 23, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Timothy Harper wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm betting it's an Emacs bug that is being surfaced by that
>>> change, because it should not be possible to crash emacs by
>>> writing emacs lisp like that.
>> 
>> It is specifically triggered by executing the following
>> (generated by lines 18-19)
>> 
>> (eval-after-load 'comint
>>  `(evil-make-overriding-map comint-mode-map))
> 
> Thank you for narrowing it down.
> 
> I'll have a go at simplifying `evil-make-overriding-map'.
> Does commit d039268 change anything?

That does it, Vegard! Nice work shooting in the dark.

How do you think would we could best describe this bug to the emacs-devel mailing list? Creating self-referential keycaps causes emacs to crash in certain cases?

Tim