From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: 27585@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27585: Fwd: Re: bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 15:47:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9488bb21-17eb-e13b-fbb0-77089e1d682e@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58232171-11ff-4d19-5107-0e705606d0e8@cs.ucla.edu>
[Sending this again since the bug was archived and read-only earlier today.]
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 11:32:44 -0700
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Philipp Stephani wrote:
> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> schrieb am Fr., 14. Juli 2017 um 14:10 Uhr:
>
>> As Eli and Daniel mentioned, this area of Emacs cannot be 100% reliable
>>
>
> Why? Surely Emacs could switch away from recursion for the reader and the
> evaluator to an explicitly-managed stack. That would be a bit of work, but
> certainly not impossible.
You are right, on both points. By "this area of Emacs" I was assuming the
current recursive implementation. It's not the only place Emacs recurses, though.
next parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-24 22:47 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <58232171-11ff-4d19-5107-0e705606d0e8@cs.ucla.edu>
2017-09-24 22:47 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-09-29 8:32 ` CC'ing archived bugs (was: bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks) Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 19:51 ` CC'ing archived bugs Paul Eggert
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