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bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure)
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure) |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:11:58 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> It would appear that this particular bug yielded to the pure size
>> increase. What a singularly useless error behavior for a problem that
>> is expected to reoccur with some regularity!
> Still waiting to hear a response to my previous question on why we don't
> just abort as soon as we detect pure overflow.
Good question. The reason is largely histerical, where it was
convenient to still have a partly usable Emacs. Nowadays, many more
people build their Emacs from trunk without having the technical
knowledge to detect and handle this problem, so it's probably better to
just abort.
Stefan
- bug#17215: Build failure, (continued)
- bug#17215: Build failure, Daniel Colascione, 2014/04/08
- bug#17215: Build failure, David Kastrup, 2014/04/08
- bug#17215: Build failure, Nicolas Richard, 2014/04/09
- bug#17215: Build failure, Daniel Colascione, 2014/04/09
- bug#17215: Build failure, Stefan Monnier, 2014/04/09
- bug#17215: Build failure, Bastien, 2014/04/09
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bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure),
Stefan Monnier <=
bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure), David Kastrup, 2014/04/11
bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure), Daniel Colascione, 2014/04/11
bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure), Stefan Monnier, 2014/04/12
bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/12
bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure), Stefan Monnier, 2014/04/12
bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/12