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bug#23369: 25.0.93; CANNOT_DUMP build fails if resizing terminal during


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: bug#23369: 25.0.93; CANNOT_DUMP build fails if resizing terminal during startup in tty mode
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:48:41 -0400
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I'd still like to see a full backtrace when the problem happens, both
> C and Lisp level.

I can't get one. I just get "NSTATICS too small" (even if I make it huge).

>> Also, it seems like if CANNOT_DUMP builds encounter an error loading
>> loadup.el, they go on to run the command-loop with only a partially
>> loaded loadup, which leads to confusing error messages that have nothing
>> to do with the real problem. Can they be made to abort instead?
>
> How will aborting help diagnosing the problems?  IME, it tends to hide
> evidence, not make it more clear.

In that Emacs might stop near the actual error (eg "loading foo..."),
rather than going on to fail with some totally unrelated error (eg
"Symbol's function definition is void: internal-echo-keystrokes-prefix"
as in this case).





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