Re: emacs floating point error during dump?

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

> > * In message <E19b3zV-0002xW-Vc@fencepost.gnu.org>
> > * On the subject of "Re: emacs floating point error during dump?"
> > * Sent on Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:55:37 -0400
> > * Honorable Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> >
> >     > The reason I omitted dependencies on lisp.h was that that file
> >     > changes quite often, but most changes in it don't require
> >     > recompiling all of Emacs.
> > 
> >     This is The Wrong Thing to do.
> >     Correctness first, performance later.
> > 
> > It is silly to be rigid about it.
> 
> it is unthinkable to be lax about it.

I agree with Sam -- breaking dependencies on purpose is beyond me.

I really don't understand why changing a prototype should not result
in recompiling things depending on that header file and I really fail
to see why you deliberately want compilation to fail from time to
time.  After all, CVS emacs evolves daily with many people involved --
and having broken dependencies causing strange behaviour is simply a
waste of everybody's time.

And I don't see why you think lisp.h changes very often.  If we ignore
the recent changes by Stefan, it only changes every 14 days, which IMO
doesn't warrent for breaking dependencies.

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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk