From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:13:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <87k1t05wz4.fsf@metalevel.at> <55776605-8940-0a4a-34fb-f3d1b955ab12@cs.ucla.edu> <831sf8x8o6.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524489139 12724 195.159.176.226 (23 Apr 2018 13:12:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:12:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 23 15:12:15 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 1fAbGQ-0003DX-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:12:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46158 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fAbIW-0003VU-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:14:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54924) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fAbIJ-0003U0-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fAbIF-0002j6-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43419 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fAbIE-0002ij-Oz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:14:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fAbG5-0002o0-78 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:11:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:NypwgL1/8TE53XbaRSxH92GUh3M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:224805 Archived-At: >> There are quite a few places in the C code of Emacs >> where execution can get stuck; that's why I added immediate quitting. >> The problems I fixed that way have all come back. [...] >> What was the reason for this change? The main reason was that you can't do it reliably in X11 because to detect a C-g requires non-trivial processing which can't be performed reliably from a signal handler. Stefan