From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16999: calc crashes when computation limit is increased Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:02:39 +0200 Message-ID: <64145024-4251-4F81-9345-4E2E064FBC1C@acm.org> References: <5320A7D9.3000802@miszellen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.15\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28001"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Florian Beck , 16999@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 10 18:05:13 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kGP4S-00079s-R3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:05:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42606 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGP4R-0002ml-OO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:05:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49682) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGP2M-00009W-GE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57677) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGP2M-0005EC-4m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kGP2L-0007Pe-Vm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:03:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <5320A7D9.3000802@miszellen.de> Resent-From: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:03:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16999 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 16999-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16999.159975377328475 (code B ref 16999); Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:03:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16999) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Sep 2020 16:02:53 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40990 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kGP2D-0007P7-5o for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:02:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail1443c50.megamailservers.eu ([91.136.14.43]:38596 helo=mail264c50.megamailservers.eu) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kGP2A-0007Oh-6L; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:02:51 -0400 X-Authenticated-User: mattiase@bredband.net DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=megamailservers.eu; s=maildub; t=1599753763; bh=CKxhK9MTuIgPbidN3FHK3XLQPCkow+EKBIBwDKnSOlI=; h=From:Date:Subject:Cc:To:From; b=n5SrzSu4cQ9oowIL1KnNZrgQeRAcQo6ZUiUrPQ3R3G9bAes/W3vKvcweXwSWUqqpl /9Ofcoaka9AiPl5vb6jIVVU1VFWIYLDSZ+vpVbK1WjwJsg/A13y6HZWGmmUTweDk59 DSNKpHJM9lVVy7kvIwLeY+/8d7oFtnwKUGgPztcY= Feedback-ID: mattiase@acm.or Original-Received: from [192.168.0.4] (c188-150-171-71.bredband.comhem.se [188.150.171.71]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail264c50.megamailservers.eu (8.14.9/8.13.1) with ESMTP id 08AG2eCj030081; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:02:42 +0000 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.15) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A782F1E.5F5A4E23.0095, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.3 cv=PPNxBsiC c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=SF+I6pRkHZhrawxbOkkvaA==:117 a=SF+I6pRkHZhrawxbOkkvaA==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=M51BFTxLslgA:10 a=AlRptKtCDsQNCIiSNEkA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-Origin-Country: SE X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:187743 Archived-At: reopen 16999 make it so While the C-level crash has been fixed, the Calc bug (infinite loop) has = not. Whether to signal a domain error for (-2 choose 0) or return the = conventional value by extension is a matter of taste; I think the latter = would be more useful. In fact, I see no reason not to extend the = function to all integral arguments, but would of course value any = half-supported opinion on the matter. Let me attempt a patch, and please forgive my reopening the bug.