unofficial mirror of bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: gazally@runbox.com, lg.zevlg@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com,
	33294@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33294: xwidget-insert crashes Emacs
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 21:23:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4lcpzn6x.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vzd0reced3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:09:12 -0500")

>> The "impossible" category is for when such objects can never be passed
>> to `type-of`, typically because they are not available to Elisp.
>>
>> But there's no harm/risk to "allow" a particular kind of object even if
>> it's actually impossible for it to be passed to type-of.
> Pardon my ignorance, but why then is the fallback behaviour on getting
> an "impossible" type to abort Emacs, rather than eg just throwing an
> error or returning 'unknown or somesuch?

Presumably it indicates a bug in the C code of Emacs, hence "abort".
But either way works for me,


        Stefan





      reply	other threads:[~2018-11-10  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-06 21:13 bug#33294: xwidget-insert crashes Emacs Evgeny Zajcev
2018-11-07  4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-07 16:16   ` Andy Moreton
2018-11-08  9:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-08 13:01       ` Andy Moreton
     [not found]   ` <CAO=W_ZqJZ0APsO1skAs+1vh8KXs+JWR7YAiHNKuWV3VdmDmU8g@mail.gmail.com>
2018-11-08  4:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-08 13:44       ` Evgeny Zajcev
2018-11-08 14:49         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-08 16:21           ` Robert Pluim
2018-11-08 18:47             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-08 20:15               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-09  7:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-09 13:16                   ` Robert Pluim
2018-11-09 13:29                   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-09 13:46                     ` Robert Pluim
2018-11-09 14:37                       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-09 14:57                         ` Robert Pluim
2018-11-09 14:56                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-09 16:11                       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-12 14:44                       ` Evgeny Zajcev
2018-11-12 16:11                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-13 11:43                           ` Evgeny Zajcev
2018-11-16  8:32                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-24  8:15                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-26 14:02                                 ` Robert Pluim
2018-11-26 16:27                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-27  7:54                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-27  9:33                                       ` Robert Pluim
2018-11-27  8:43                                     ` Robert Pluim
2018-11-27  9:12                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-09 18:09                     ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-10  2:23                       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=jwv4lcpzn6x.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org \
    --to=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
    --cc=33294@debbugs.gnu.org \
    --cc=gazally@runbox.com \
    --cc=lg.zevlg@gmail.com \
    --cc=rgm@gnu.org \
    --cc=rpluim@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).