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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Steve Kemp <steve@steve.org.uk>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 27585@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 22:12:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b24c202-0d78-f9a8-56a7-50ff4ecdc423@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170715050308.GA16419@steve.org.uk>

Steve Kemp wrote:
>      $ /tmp/emacs/bin/emacs -Q --batch --script ./t.el
>      Re-entering top level after C stack overflow
>      [emacs still running]
> 
>    Compare that with the normal example:
> 
>      $ echo "(defun foo() "Test")" > t.el
>      $ /tmp/emacs/bin/emacs -Q --batch --script ./t.el
>      $
> 
>    Perhaps not a huge problem, but it is a change I think?

After a stack overflow, Emacs drops what it's doing and goes to the top level, 
regardless of its command-line arguments. Perhaps it would be better if Emacs 
did something else for this particular case. It's low priority, though.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-15  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-05  6:21 bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks Steve Kemp
2017-07-05  7:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-07-05  8:26   ` Steve Kemp
2017-07-05 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-05 18:55   ` Steve Kemp
2017-07-05 19:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06  3:46       ` Steve Kemp
2017-07-06 15:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06 15:33           ` Steve Kemp
2017-07-06 16:24             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06  6:46       ` Andreas Schwab
2017-07-06 15:19         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06 15:31           ` Andreas Schwab
2017-07-06 15:37             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06 15:41               ` Andreas Schwab
2017-07-06 15:52       ` Daniel Colascione
2017-07-06 16:19         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06 16:37           ` Daniel Colascione
2017-07-06 17:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06 15:48   ` Daniel Colascione
2017-07-14 12:09 ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-14 13:30   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-15  5:03     ` Steve Kemp
2017-07-15  5:12       ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-07-15  7:15         ` Eli Zaretskii

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