tree-sitter crashes Emacs

[Joost Kremers]

Hi list,

A week ago or so, I opened a Python file in Emacs and saw Emacs crash hard.
Bisecting my init file, I found that the culprit was tree-sitter. As it turns
out, some change was made in tree-sitter that caused the ABI to change, and when
I upgraded my distro's tree-sitter package, the new ABI caused Emacs to crash.

There is a thread about this issue on the tree-sitter GitHub page:

https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/3296

The consensus there seems to be, however, that the current problem should not be
solved by the tree-sitter project, but rather by the relevant Linux
distributions and/or by Emacs itself.

A bug has been opened for Arch Linux (the distro I'm using):

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/emacs/-/issues/2

That issue, however, is labelled with "status:waiting-upstream", which suggests
that nothing's going to happen until the tree-sitter project does something.
Which is not going to happen, I fear, because the tree-sitter issue has been
closed.

Since I haven't seen the issue mentioned here and given that it was suggested it
might be an Emacs issue, I wanted to ask the opinion of the maintainers: can
this be considered an Emacs bug, or is it really something that should be solved
upstream?

TIA


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Joost Kremers
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