From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Should undefined behavior be encouraged in Emacs?
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:29:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y5x2wka1.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E89124D.8070405@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:39:25 -0700")
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.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-03 8:29 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 [this message]
2011-10-03 9:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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