From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:29:57 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <564FACF5.2080601@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87io5bv1it.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87egfzuwca.fsf@lifelogs.com> <876118u6f2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8737w3qero.fsf@lifelogs.com> <831tbn9g9j.fsf@gnu.org> <878u5upw7o.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83ziya8xph.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4du80xo.fsf@gnu.org> <837fld6lps.fsf@gnu.org> <83610w5o97.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448062228 7306 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2015 23:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 21 00:30:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Zzv8E-0001aN-Ao for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2015 00:30:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50378 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzv8D-0007N2-PH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:30:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzv7z-0007K6-Ux for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:30:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzv7z-0001Bd-8e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:35297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zzv7v-00019v-A8; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D153160D25; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:29:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id l9gwKL7kVTjn; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:29:57 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E11F160DFE; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:29:57 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 5gfbf7MSexC5; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:29:57 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7704D160D25; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:29:57 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194912 Archived-At: Philipp Stephani wrote: > why does it need to detect anything? Can't it just be a different > function that doesn't signal, similar to push_handler and > push_handler_nosignal? Yes, that should work and should be easy to implement. But how would it behave to the caller? Will the caller have to check that it doesn't return NULL? I hope not; that would be a pain and error-prone.