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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem report #90
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:42:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvac766wc0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buok66ack2k.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:09:07 +0900")

>> Since Fsignal does not return the true path here and similar paths below
>> are uninteresting.  With this premise there is always an assignment
>> to val.

> I guess this has probably been discussed before, but why aren't
> functions like Fsignal annotated as never returning?

See Kim's recent patch that introduce xsignal.

The problem which that patch solves is that Fsignal sometimes can return (if
signalling a `quit'), so it's incorrect to annotate it as never returning.


        Stefan

      reply	other threads:[~2006-07-19  4:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-17 18:01 Problem report #90 Dan Nicolaescu
2006-07-17 18:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-07-19  4:09   ` Miles Bader
2006-07-19  4:42     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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