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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
> Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>,  michael_heerdegen@web.de,
>   mail@daniel-mendler.de,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  62009@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:45:11 +0100
> 
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 at 09:11, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> What is the purpose of supporting mutation of symbol names in general?

We don't.  Whoever does this is on their own.