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 modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc. Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:33:07 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5678EEA3.2060402@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83mvu1x6t3.fsf@gnu.org> <565779CD.80405@cs.ucla.edu> <83io4nuc68.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3iht93x.fsf@gnu.org> <838u4psznr.fsf@gnu.org> <56772054.8010401@cs.ucla.edu> <83zix4scgf.fsf@gnu.org> <5677DBC9.6030307@cs.ucla.edu> <83io3rst2r.fsf@gnu.org> <567841A6.4090408@cs.ucla.edu> <567844B9.2050308@dancol.org> <5678CD07.8080209@cs.ucla.edu> <5678D3AF.7030101@dancol.org> <5678D620.6070000@cs.ucla.edu> <5678D710.9010406@dancol.org> <5678E8FE.1010502@cs.ucla.edu> <5678EA4E.6080606@dancol.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 1450766009 14157 80.91.229.3 (22 Dec 2015 06:33:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 06:33:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 22 07:33:18 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 1aBGVZ-0001Es-PN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 07:33:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48944 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBGVZ-0003iM-1l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 01:33:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42305) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBGVW-0003he-CP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 01:33:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBGVV-0000nq-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 01:33:14 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:39075) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBGVR-0000nG-I6; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 01:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810F716066A; Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:33:08 -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 31FS49xbG8Ul; Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:33:07 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3629160D02; Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:33:07 -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 kXk_K09WU-Mc; Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:33:07 -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 9F1F116066A; Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:33:07 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: <5678EA4E.6080606@dancol.org> 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:196654 Archived-At: Daniel Colascione wrote: > Most programs you use don't bother trying to detect or recover from sack > overflow. Why should they? C stack overflow is a programming error. Emacs is different because it's programmable, and it must respond robustly to programming errors. > The current stack overflow scheme can't recover reliably > because it doesn't fix maintain invariants. It works well enough now for people to get work done. Introducing modules should not break this.