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Re: Should I report Emacs crashes due to ELisp infinite recursion?
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Clément Pit--Claudel |
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Re: Should I report Emacs crashes due to ELisp infinite recursion? |
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Mon, 1 Aug 2016 10:16:27 -0400 |
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On 2016-08-01 09:56, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 09:11:19 -0400
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>> Or is it expected that infinite recursion from ELisp can crash Emacs?
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> Yes, because it causes stack overflow.
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> On some platforms, Emacs recently learned how to recover from stack
> overflow, but that protection is not 100% reliable even on those
> platforms (notably, stack overflow during GC cannot be recovered
> from), and even if Emacs recovers we recommend to orderly shut down
> the session and start another one.
Perfect, thanks!
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