* Re: master a9b393c: Include development data in --version output
@ 2022-06-01 19:10 Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-02 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-06-01 19:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: emacs-devel
> commit a9b393c77350cc177952008707781dd97341a83a
> Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> AuthorDate: Mon May 23 11:58:22 2022 +0200
> Commit: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> CommitDate: Mon May 23 11:58:22 2022 +0200
>
> Include development data in --version output
>
> * src/emacs.c (main): Include development into in --version output
> (bug#38657).
>
> diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
> index 056cebb..fed525f 100644
> --- a/src/emacs.c
> +++ b/src/emacs.c
> @@ -1449,14 +1449,29 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
> version = emacs_version;
> copyright = emacs_copyright;
> }
> - printf (("%s %s\n"
> - "%s\n"
> + printf ("%s %s\n", PACKAGE_NAME, version);
> + {
> + Lisp_Object rversion =
> + Fsymbol_value (intern_c_string ("emacs-repository-version"));
> + Lisp_Object rbranch =
> + Fsymbol_value (intern_c_string ("emacs-repository-branch"));
> + Lisp_Object rtime =
> + Fsymbol_value (intern_c_string ("emacs-build-time"));
> + if (!NILP (rversion) && !NILP (rbranch) && !NILP (rtime))
> + printf ("Development version %s on %s branch; build date %s.\n",
> + SSDATA (Fsubstring (rversion, make_fixnum (0),
> + make_fixnum (12))),
> + SSDATA (rbranch),
> + SSDATA (Fformat_time_string (build_string ("%Y-%m-%d"),
> + rtime, Qnil)));
> + }
> + printf (("%s\n"
> "%s comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.\n"
> "You may redistribute copies of %s\n"
> "under the terms of the GNU General Public License.\n"
> "For more information about these matters, "
> "see the file named COPYING.\n"),
> - PACKAGE_NAME, version, copyright, PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_NAME);
> + copyright, PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_NAME);
> exit (0);
> }
This change caused Emacs to crash when invoked with --version on
MS-Windows. The reason was that it calls format-time-string, which
calls GMP functions, and that cannot be safely done before invoking
init_bignum.
I fixed the crash, but I cannot say that I'm happy with how this is
implemented: it is not safe to call Lisp functions so early into the
startup, before all the gazillion of init_FOO initializations were
called and did their things. Look how the next Lisp function call is
waaaay down the 'main', _after_ the initializations.
I think this code fragment is a bomb waiting to go off. We should IMO
instead raise a flag and then test it and act on it much later in the
code.
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* Re: master a9b393c: Include development data in --version output
2022-06-01 19:10 master a9b393c: Include development data in --version output Eli Zaretskii
@ 2022-06-02 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-06-02 7:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: larsi; +Cc: emacs-devel
> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 22:10:23 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> I fixed the crash, but I cannot say that I'm happy with how this is
> implemented: it is not safe to call Lisp functions so early into the
> startup, before all the gazillion of init_FOO initializations were
> called and did their things. Look how the next Lisp function call is
> waaaay down the 'main', _after_ the initializations.
>
> I think this code fragment is a bomb waiting to go off.
And here it is, going off (on GNU/Linux):
$ make
$ ./src/temacs -version
GNU Emacs 29.0.50
Segmentation fault
> We should IMO instead raise a flag and then test it and act on it
> much later in the code.
Now done.
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