From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU
Subject: Re: Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:20:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4q1idg5f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FO0DE-0006yI-9N@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:29:24 -0500)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:29:24 -0500
>
> The core dumps were not mentioned in the documentation, so I doubt
> that some code was relying on that. OTOH, it's quite possible that
> some code _does_ rely on the fact that it never threw an error.
>
> To signal an error in a kind of case which formerly could sometimes
> crash does not seem like a problem to me.
Do you think this change of behavior is worth mentioning in NEWS? How
about mentioning the possibility of the signal in the doc string?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-28 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-17 5:58 Emacs current-time-string core dump on 64-bit hosts Paul Eggert
2006-03-17 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-17 12:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-03-17 16:04 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-03-18 0:44 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-18 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-19 2:30 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-21 19:25 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-18 8:43 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-19 1:53 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-19 21:50 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-19 23:44 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-20 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-27 22:00 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-28 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-30 7:52 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-30 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-04 4:57 ` Paul Eggert
2006-04-04 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-21 1:00 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-24 20:45 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-25 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-26 5:25 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-26 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-27 22:29 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-28 10:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-03-29 8:14 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-25 15:26 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-24 21:00 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-24 21:09 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-25 15:26 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-26 7:31 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <E1FNnCd-0000pN-J4@fencepost.gnu.org>
2006-03-27 20:49 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-28 19:33 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-30 7:57 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-31 17:28 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-31 20:51 ` Paul Eggert
2006-04-01 20:28 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-03 4:44 ` Paul Eggert
2006-03-17 16:25 ` Andreas Schwab
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2006-03-17 8:02 Paul Eggert
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