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bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:58:23 -0800 |
> `save-window-excursion' is the macro never to use. It should
> be used exclusively for debugging and prototyping. Application
> programmers who prefer to work with multiple frames themselves
> should know best and avoid `save-window-excursion' like the
> plague. At least in "released" code. Anything else is
> masochism.
Unbelievable language. What dogmatism. What hyperbole. One can only hope that
the same swashbuckling, slash-and-burn attitude is not taken when you modify the
code.
I wonder how that particular plague escaped the attention of Richard et al for
35 years? It's a wonder that it was ever documented, except perhaps as a mortal
danger.
- bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort, (continued)
- bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort, Sean Sieger, 2011/01/14
- bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort, Drew Adams, 2011/01/14
- bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort, Sean Sieger, 2011/01/14
- bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/14
- bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort, Sean Sieger, 2011/01/14
- bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort, Stefan Monnier, 2011/01/13
- bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort, Drew Adams, 2011/01/13
- bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort, martin rudalics, 2011/01/14
- bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort, Stefan Monnier, 2011/01/14
- bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort, Drew Adams, 2011/01/16