timer error

[Nick Roberts]

 > I am suddenly getting the following error regularly, using
 > several recent CVS versions.
 > 
 > timer-relative-time: Arithmetic range error: "floor", 173915144354731.1

Can you do M-x toggle-debug-on-error and post the lisp backtrace?

 > If emacs crashed, and you have the emacs process in the gdb debugger,
 > please include the output from the following gdb commands:
 >     `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
 > If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
 > /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/etc/DEBUG for instructions.
 > 
 > No crash.

To the mailing list generally:  I'm not an expert on bug reporting but isn't
the need for a lisp backtrace more common than a crash?  Would it be a good
idea to include a suggestion about this in report-emacs bug.  Something like:

  If Emacs reports an error, please start the Lisp debugger with
  M-x toggle-debug-on-error, make the error happen again and include the
  lisp backtrace it generates.

 > 
 > In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.7.1)
 >  of 2006-06-28 on phi-qp617070u2s.princeton.edu
 > X server distributor `Apple Computers', version 10.4.7
 > configured using `configure '--without-x' '--prefix=/usr/local''
 > 
 > Important settings:
 >...


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