From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Redisplay crash Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:52:27 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87eks0654s.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <87n06bp4ng.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <8765cwkejr.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200404071157.UAA25094@etlken.m17n.org> <200404071312.WAA25268@etlken.m17n.org> <87zn9nqras.fsf@emacswiki.org> <20040408020537.GA22508@fencepost> <200404080234.LAA26966@etlken.m17n.org> <87r7uyfoz9.fsf-monnier+emacs@alfajor.local> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1081742961 27382 80.91.224.253 (12 Apr 2004 04:09:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 12 06:09:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BCsl0-0003Sa-00 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 06:09:14 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BCsl0-0008QJ-00 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 06:09:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BCrmi-00089D-UO for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BCrl4-0007Oy-0k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:05:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BCrkA-0005tF-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:04:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BCrYn-0007af-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BCsUl-0007d1-4U; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:52:27 -0400 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21500 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21500 > Perhaps we need to record history information about occurrences > within redisplay, so that after it crashes we can investigate > what happened without needing to find a reproducible test case. I don't think it will be worth the efforts. It is always better to have a specific test case and debug the code to find the cause of the error. It is surely better to have a specific test case; the problem is that sometimes we don't have one and nobody can find one.