bug#57957: bug#69872: 29.2; Async native compilation of seq.el test uses up resources and hangs

[Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>]

Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:
>
>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>
>>>> The question is of course also how much effort circular lists deserve in
>>>> the compiler.  From my point of view, not too much because they aren't
>>>> very useful, in code at least.  And dealing with them costs runtime.
>>>
>>> Circular data structures are perfectly normal in source code under
>>> a `quote` but the code itself should never be cyclic (so I think it
>>> would be OK to signal an error (and/or to inf-loop) when asked to
>>> compile a chunk of code that has a cycle).  So we *should* handle
>>> circular data structures correctly.
>>
>> I agree, Saturday I should have some time to look into this.
>
> A little time after... I finally managed to get to it, sorry for the
> delay.
>
> I've pushed into master c5de73a95a6, it fixes my reprodurer here and
> adds a test for this.
>
> If anyone could confirm this is fixed i'll be (extremely) happy to close
> this :)
>
> Thanks
>
>   Andrea

Right I'm closing this as I believe it's fixed, happy to re-open if it's
not the case.

Thanks!

  Andrea