From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recent enabling of xassert
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:18:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <420B34F9.7060109@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31xboydal.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk>
Kim F. Storm wrote:
>Miles recently enabled xassert unconditionally to catch undiscovered
>bugs in redisplay and other places...
>
>We have now seen several crashes caused by this change -- but none of
>them has been fully diagnosed yet, as this is very hard without having
>easy ways to reproduce the crashes.
>
>Debugging those crashes requires time which I don't have -- so unless
>someone else steps in to help, I suggest we disable xassert again.
>
>
I disagree. xassert should only be disabled for releases. We want to
find the bugs now, even if it takes time to fix them. CVS should not be
considered a stable release.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-10 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-10 9:28 Recent enabling of xassert Kim F. Storm
2005-02-10 10:18 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2005-02-10 11:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-02-11 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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