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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should I report Emacs crashes due to ELisp infinite recursion?
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 10:24:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh9b3i73q.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7b783a66-c101-9a07-612e-9392b4d5433c@gmail.com

> Or is it expected that infinite recursion from ELisp can crash Emacs?

There can be cases where infinite recursion crashes Emacs, yes.
But these should be rare.  A first line of defense is the
max-specpdl-size and max-lisp-eval-depth.  If you have not changed those
and you still get a crash then it's worth M-x report-emacs-bug.


        Stefan




      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-02 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-01 13:11 Should I report Emacs crashes due to ELisp infinite recursion? Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-08-01 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-01 14:16   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-08-02 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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