bug#62009: 29.0.60; Emacs crashes on setf symbol-name

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>,  michael_heerdegen@web.de,
>   monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  62009@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:11:13 +0000
> 
> > AFAICT, they _are_ frozen.  These names are in read-only memory, where
> > you cannot write.  That's why Emacs crashes, AFAIU: the code is trying
> > to write to protected memory.
> >
> > Just don't do that, cause it's gonna hurt...
> 
> Is it not possible to detect this before the illegal memory access, and
> raise a signal in Emacs Lisp?

It won't be easy, if at all possible.  And I'm not sure we even want
to do that.  What would be the purpose of supporting such a use of
Emacs?