From: Jonas Jelten <jj@sft.lol>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs segfaults when handling wrong_type_argument backtrace
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:41:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6178cb5d-e31a-0851-8dbf-cb7be08e8542@sft.lol> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838rfe5y68.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2023-03-30 12:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
>> Cc: Jonas Jelten <jj@sft.lol>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:36:25 +0000
>>
>> Eli if we want to avoid spurious bug reports due to stale eln-cache we
>> can also increment ABI_VERSION in comp.c. Not sure is something we want
>> to do tho. Please let me know if you think is appropriate in this case.
>
> I don't think we need to increment ABI_VERSION to avoid bug reports,
> no. Yes, that places additional burden on my and your shoulders
> (perhaps mainly on yours), but bumping the ABI_VERSION has its own
> downsides (e.g., it requires recompilation of all the preloaded
> files), and I don't think this is justified. People who track
> development versions and use that for production sessions will have to
> be prepared to clean up their eln-cache from time to time, when
> changes like this one are made.
>
After clearing the cache it seems to work, thanks, that was easy.
I assumed that changes in the abi would result in a version bump :)
Shouldn't recompilation of files happen in such a case rather than random crashes, though? Or ar there other, more complicated downsides?
Cheers
-- Jonas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-30 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-29 21:54 Emacs segfaults when handling wrong_type_argument backtrace Jonas Jelten
2023-03-30 5:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-30 9:36 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-03-30 10:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-30 16:41 ` Jonas Jelten [this message]
2023-03-30 18:51 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-03-31 19:01 ` Jonas Jelten
2023-04-01 5:51 ` tomas
2023-04-01 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01 8:06 ` tomas
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