bug#57880: 28.1; Emacs crashes with native compilation on when some antivirus program is running on MS-Windows

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: 57880@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
>> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 19:26:08 +0000
>> 
>> Okay, I think then is a good idea to guard against the NULL pointer
>> potentially returned, OTOH we do it already in the rest of the code.
>> 
>> I'm only not sure if we should signal an error or not here.
>
> No, we shouldn't, IMO.  We should just behave as if the *.eln files
> were unavailable, perhaps with some message logged in *Messages*.
> Signaling an error would be shooting the user in his/her foot, because
> loading of *.eln files is attempted as part of routine operation, so
> signaling an error will prevent the user from being able to invoke
> many commands.

Agree.

  Andrea