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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com,
	tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:52:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5678D710.9010406@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5678D620.6070000@cs.ucla.edu>

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On 12/21/2015 08:48 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> I'd rather
>> Emacs just die on C stack overflow
>
> That would certainly be easier to implement! But as a user I would not
> find it acceptable.

You find it acceptable in most other programs. What problem are we
trying to solve with this overflow checking? We should do something
about unbound recursion in Lisp, but in C? Why? We expect a much higher
level of robustness in the C code.

Besides, we already crash if we overflow the stack while we're GCing.

>>  except when we know we're running
>> Lisp in such a way that we know we can recover.
>
> I'm afraid that's not good enough, as stack overflow can occur while
> running C code.

Yes, and the proper response to stack overflow in C code should be to
crash. We shouldn't be allocating stack without bound in C.



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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-22  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 177+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-25 18:39 Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 18:50 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-11-25 19:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 21:29 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-27  7:35   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 19:19     ` Philipp Stephani
2015-11-28 10:58       ` Philipp Stephani
2015-11-28 12:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-19 21:03         ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-19 22:57           ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-20 15:47             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-20 18:34               ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-20 19:11                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-20 21:40                   ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-21  3:33                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-21 11:00                       ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-21 11:21                         ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-21 11:34                           ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-21 15:46                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-21 18:15                           ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-21 18:28                             ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-21 19:00                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-21 20:19                                 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-21 19:04                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22  4:09                               ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-22  4:38                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22  4:48                                   ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-22  4:52                                     ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2015-12-22  6:09                                       ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-22  6:14                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22  6:33                                           ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-22  6:35                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22  6:44                                               ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-22  6:53                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22 16:13                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 16:12                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 17:26                                             ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-22 17:51                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 16:03                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 16:39                                       ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-22 17:46                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 23:28                                           ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-23 16:10                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-23 16:20                                               ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-23 16:46                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-23 17:09                                                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-23 17:18                                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-24  2:51                                                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-24  3:11                                                       ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-24 16:10                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-24 17:04                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-24 17:17                                                           ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 14:27                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 15:46                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 15:49                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 16:40                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 16:50                                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 17:20                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 16:31                                                               ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 16:48                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 18:07                                                                   ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 18:22                                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 21:02                                                                       ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 21:12                                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 23:11                                                                           ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 23:22                                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 23:29                                                                               ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04  1:05                                                                               ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-04  1:07                                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 15:38                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:40                                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 16:07                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 20:32                                                                                     ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04 20:34                                                                                       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 20:35                                                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 22:06                                                                                           ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04 15:24                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:28                                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 16:00                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 17:16                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 17:22                                                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 17:39                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 17:49                                                                       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 18:08                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 18:24                                                                           ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 18:51                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 19:04                                                                               ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 19:15                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 19:26                                                                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 19:46                                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 19:47                                                                                       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 19:49                                                                                   ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 20:14                                                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04  3:17                                                                           ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-03 18:17                                                                         ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 17:43                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 20:25                                                               ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 20:47                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 21:07                                                                   ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 21:28                                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 21:31                                                                       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 15:27                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:29                                                                           ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 16:01                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 21:45                                                                       ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 22:20                                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 22:43                                                                           ` Crash recovery strategies (was: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc.) John Wiegley
2016-01-03 22:55                                                                             ` Crash recovery strategies Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 22:59                                                                               ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 23:04                                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 23:20                                                                                   ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 23:47                                                                               ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 23:51                                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04  0:12                                                                                   ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04 15:40                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:44                                                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 15:33                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:34                                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 16:02                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 23:21                                                                             ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 23:24                                                                               ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 23:28                                                                                 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04  0:51                                                                                 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 23:27                                                                               ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 23:29                                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 23:33                                                                                   ` Sending automatic crash reports to the FSF (was: Crash recovery strategies) John Wiegley
2016-01-03 23:36                                                                                     ` Sending automatic crash reports to the FSF Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 23:39                                                                                       ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 23:48                                                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04  1:34                                                                                   ` Crash recovery strategies Drew Adams
2016-01-04 15:32                                                                             ` Crash recovery strategies (was: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc.) Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:35                                                                               ` Crash recovery strategies Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 16:04                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05  4:48                                                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-05 15:52                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 16:37                                                                                     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-01-05 17:08                                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 17:38                                                                                         ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-01-04 15:31                                                                           ` Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:41                                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 16:13                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:29                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:26                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-24 17:36                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-24 18:06                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-24 19:15                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 16:01                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 16:32                                     ` John Wiegley
2015-12-22 20:31                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22 20:46                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 20:52                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22 21:08                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 21:18                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-23 16:07                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-23 16:25                                                 ` Crash robustness (Was: Re: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc.) Daniel Colascione
2015-12-23 17:30                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-23 17:41                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-23 17:55                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-23 17:56                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-23 18:09                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-23 18:19                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-23 18:45                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-24  3:26                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-21 18:57                             ` Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-21 20:15                             ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-20 15:48           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-20 18:27             ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-20 19:00               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-20 21:00                 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-03-26 20:18                   ` Philipp Stephani
2016-02-29 22:48           ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-01 16:41             ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-01 21:43               ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-02 18:54                 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-31 18:44                   ` Philipp Stephani
2016-04-01  8:29                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-28 23:20     ` Paul Eggert

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