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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: 17215@debbugs.gnu.org, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:11:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd2gnoci3.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53483E5E.8020705@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:11:26 -0700")

>> It would appear that this particular bug yielded to the pure size
>> increase.  What a singularly useless error behavior for a problem that
>> is expected to reoccur with some regularity!
> Still waiting to hear a response to my previous question on why we don't
> just abort as soon as we detect pure overflow.

Good question.  The reason is largely histerical, where it was
convenient to still have a partly usable Emacs.  Nowadays, many more
people build their Emacs from trunk without having the technical
knowledge to detect and handle this problem, so it's probably better to
just abort.


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-11 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-07  8:08 bug#17215: Build failure David Kastrup
2014-04-07 20:47 ` Glenn Morris
2014-04-08 10:42   ` David Kastrup
2014-04-08 10:50     ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-08 11:36       ` David Kastrup
2014-04-09 10:19         ` Nicolas Richard
2014-04-09 10:48           ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-09 12:43             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-09 15:38           ` Bastien
     [not found] ` <handler.17215.B.139685811224063.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2014-04-11 15:51   ` bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure) David Kastrup
2014-04-11 19:11     ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-11 20:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-11 20:18         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-11 20:11       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-04-11 20:58         ` David Kastrup
2014-04-11 21:34           ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-12 13:19             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-12  8:35         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-12 13:21           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-12 14:18             ` Eli Zaretskii

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