From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16711: 24.3.50; Error: pre-redisplay-function Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:14:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451186121 31488 80.91.229.3 (27 Dec 2015 03:15:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 03:15:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 16711@debbugs.gnu.org To: "T.V Raman" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 04:15:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1nZ-0003Ap-Nr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 04:15:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40625 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1nY-0000CT-SZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:15:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40099) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1nW-0000CK-3Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:15:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1nS-0008Ml-3N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:15:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:34714) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1nS-0008Lz-12 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:15:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1nR-00058j-M6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:15:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 03:15:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16711 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo unreproducible Original-Received: via spool by 16711-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16711.145118607119703 (code B ref 16711); Sun, 27 Dec 2015 03:15:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16711) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Dec 2015 03:14:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42316 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1mx-00057j-1e for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:14:31 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:47814) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1mu-00057a-LI for 16711@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:14:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id tBR3EOmI014847; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:14:25 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7705BAE067; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:14:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (T. V. Raman's message of "Mon, 10 Feb 2014 08:37:47 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5531=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5531> : inlines <4155> : streams <1560773> : uri <2109172> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:110762 Archived-At: > I've been bitten by this intermitently for the last few weeks; it > appears to be happening more often now. > Observed initially in W3 when rendering heavy-weight web pages; it also > shows up in eww. That's a problem that needs fixing. > You get a variable depth exeeds max eval depth error repeatedly -- > turning on debug doesn't yield any additional info. That's not very surprising: since pre-redisplay-function is run during redisplay, running redisplay (e.g. to show a backtrace) from within it would require extra care to try and avoid inf-looping. Maybe we should re-introduce stack-trace-on-error, or something equivalent, for those cases. In the mean time, can you run Emacs within GDB and set a breakpoint on maybe_call_debugger? Stefan