all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does wrong_type_argument return or not?
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:45:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <je4rk91snx.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5x664p8wy9.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk's message of "22 Feb 2002 14:31:26 +0100")

storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

|> According to the doc string, Fsignal does not return, so
|> neither does wrong_type_argument.  However, looking at
|> Fsignal, it can return -- and the code in wrong_type_argument
|> definitely expects this to happen, so it can itself return
|> a (valid) value.

It used to, but that has been disabled.  See the comment in Fsignal:

#if 0 /* Most callers are not prepared to handle gc if this returns.
	 So, since this feature is not very useful, take it out.  */
      /* If have called debugger and user wants to continue,
	 just return nil.  */

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg
Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."

_______________________________________________
Emacs-devel mailing list
Emacs-devel@gnu.org
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel


  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-22 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-22 13:31 Does wrong_type_argument return or not? Kim F. Storm
2002-02-22 14:45 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2002-02-23 20:19 ` Richard Stallman

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=je4rk91snx.fsf@sykes.suse.de \
    --to=schwab@suse.de \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.