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
prev 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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