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From: dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 58601@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58601: 29.0.50; Infinite loop in byte-compile--first-symbol-with-pos
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:18:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875ygh3y2p.fsf@dick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y06/3V4bAByADcz0@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:01:49 +0000")

AM> But a circular list is an invalid argument

This betrays a basic misunderstanding of what compilers do.

Would that it were so convenient that compiler writers could admit
non-terminating compilation based on the content of user programs.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-18 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-17 23:24 bug#58601: 29.0.50; Infinite loop in byte-compile--first-symbol-with-pos Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-18 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-18 16:33   ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-18 19:19     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-18 15:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-18 16:18   ` dick [this message]
2022-10-18 16:34   ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-18 17:06     ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-18 17:39       ` dick
2022-10-18 19:19       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-19  8:52         ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-19 12:48           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-21 10:57             ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-10-21 10:47           ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-21 10:47       ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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