From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 18:13:55 +0200 Message-ID: <83h9jaqx4s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83mvu1x6t3.fsf@gnu.org> <565779CD.80405@cs.ucla.edu> <83io4nuc68.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3iht93x.fsf@gnu.org> <838u4psznr.fsf@gnu.org> <56772054.8010401@cs.ucla.edu> <83zix4scgf.fsf@gnu.org> <5677DBC9.6030307@cs.ucla.edu> <83io3rst2r.fsf@gnu.org> <567841A6.4090408@cs.ucla.edu> <567844B9.2050308@dancol.org> <5678CD07.8080209@cs.ucla.edu> <5678D3AF.7030101@dancol.org> <5678D620.6070000@cs.ucla.edu> <5678D710.9010406@dancol.org> <5678E8FE.1010502@cs.ucla.edu> <5678EA4E.6080606@dancol.org> <5678EEA3.2060402@cs.ucla.edu> <5678EF14.6010707@dancol.org> <5678F167.2040607@cs.ucla.edu> <5678F378.3090906@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450800827 14549 80.91.229.3 (22 Dec 2015 16:13:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:13:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 22 17:13:42 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aBPZF-0005aK-6b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:13:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBPZE-0001k3-GV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:13:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBPZ0-0001j9-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:13:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBPYv-0005Kh-O2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:13:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:32923) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBPYv-0005Kd-Kc; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:13:21 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1548 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aBPYu-0002tO-TF; Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:13:21 -0500 In-reply-to: <5678F378.3090906@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:53:44 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196670 Archived-At: > From: Daniel Colascione > Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:53:44 -0800 > Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, tzz@lifelogs.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > But why bother? We have max-lisp-eval-depth to prevent runaway > recursion. Whenever I've written clowny overly-deep code, I've always > hit that limit, or max-specpdl-size, first. In that case, all this discussion is a moot point, since you are in effect saying that the stack-overflow recovery code will never be executed in the first place.