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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should undefined behavior be encouraged in Emacs?
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:53:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RAfDM-000843-14@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2y5x2wka1.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (message from Andreas Schwab on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:29:10 +0200)

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:29:10 +0200
> Cc: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> I don't think Emacs should have undefined behaviour.  It may have
> unspecified behaviour (ie. it may change any time), but the result
> should always be consistent with the documented rules.

That might be a good goal, but I think it is practically unreachable.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-03  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-03  1:39 Should undefined behavior be encouraged in Emacs? Paul Eggert
2011-10-03  3:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-03  6:39   ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-03  7:29     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-03  8:58       ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-06  2:17         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-06 17:30           ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-06 19:49             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-06 20:08               ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-06 20:12                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-06 20:46                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07  5:23                   ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07  7:44                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-07  7:52                     ` John Wiegley
2011-10-07 17:27                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-07  8:38                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-07 15:26                   ` Barry Warsaw
2011-10-07 18:06                     ` ken manheimer
2011-10-07 18:21                       ` Barry Warsaw
2011-10-07 18:46                       ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-07 19:59                         ` ken manheimer
2011-10-07 18:41                     ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 13:49                   ` Miles Bader
2011-10-08 14:34                     ` Drew Adams
2011-10-03 13:16       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-03  9:20   ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-03  9:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-03  8:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-03  9:53   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-10-03 13:13 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-03 15:15   ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-04  1:55     ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-04  2:18       ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-03 16:14   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-03 16:27     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-03 16:41       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-04  1:55     ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-03 20:53   ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-03 14:49 ` Dave Abrahams

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