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#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:11:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871tx9k1dy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87ioqfdfuw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <53483E5E.8020705@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397247212 7111 80.91.229.3 (11 Apr 2014 20:13:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 20:13:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 17215@debbugs.gnu.org, David Kastrup To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 11 22:13:24 2014 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 1WYhpC-0006QG-No for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:13:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59687 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WYhpC-00039r-8x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:13:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WYhp1-00037V-25 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:13:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WYhos-0005g6-Qy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37531) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WYhos-0005fz-Nc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WYhos-0007Ih-7f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:13:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 20:13:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 17215 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 17215-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B17215.139724715828016 (code B ref 17215); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 20:13:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17215) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Apr 2014 20:12:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45688 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WYhoQ-0007Hh-5D for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:12:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:34359) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WYhoE-0007HG-Rx for 17215@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:12:31 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403A684D8C; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:12:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCB61E5874; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:11:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DE5E3B4180; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:11:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <53483E5E.8020705@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:11:26 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.49, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_REPONSE 0.33, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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:87956 Archived-At: >> 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