From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 18:42:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <87k1t05wz4.fsf@metalevel.at> <55776605-8940-0a4a-34fb-f3d1b955ab12@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524350463 19591 195.159.176.226 (21 Apr 2018 22:41:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 22:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: triska@metalevel.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 22 00:40:59 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fA1Bj-0004zz-4O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 00:40:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53346 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fA1Dp-0005gi-Tv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 18:43:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60047) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fA1Dd-0005eb-Bc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 18:43:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fA1Dc-0006q2-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 18:42:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39820) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fA1DY-0006nh-E0; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 18:42:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fA1DY-0002zl-1r; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 18:42:52 -0400 In-reply-to: <55776605-8940-0a4a-34fb-f3d1b955ab12@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:37:43 -0700) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224778 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Yes, this could be a problem. Perhaps we'll need to extend GMP to fix it. The only things that might interrupt Lisp code are signals. If C-g is detected by a signal, it can interrupt almost anything in C, including computation in a GMP function, -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.