From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: conservative stack scanning Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:23:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <50EFC75B.3000308@cs.ucla.edu> <83hamoulkj.fsf@gnu.org> <50F063DD.2040504@cs.ucla.edu> <50F0C1A4.40309@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357964615 28408 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2013 04:23:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:23:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gpion@lfdj.com, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 12 05:23:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TtsdL-0005yZ-Bg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:23:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43367 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ttsd4-0004zs-CF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:23:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43739) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ttsd0-0004zj-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:23:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ttscy-0001Kl-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:23:30 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:40757) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ttscv-0001KO-I1; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:23:25 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtkGAG6Zu09FpZpV/2dsb2JhbABEDoFtshaBCIIVAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiBwFugmQRAOIQppxgViCMFc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="212348761" Original-Received: from 69-165-154-85.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.154.85]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 11 Jan 2013 23:23:24 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6B2DD5943D; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:23:24 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <50F0C1A4.40309@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:51:32 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:156247 Archived-At: > Yes, we should give it a try. If it doesn't work we can revert. > If it does work, we can simplify Emacs and this will help prevent > future bugs like Bug#13408. > Here's a proposed patch. Looks OK. > + At some point we should simplify Emacs by removing support > + for all methods other than method 1. */ There's no point including such speculation in there. Stefan