GNU bug report logs - #1043
PENDING_OUTPUT_COUNT discussion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:25:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #42 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 1043 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1043: emacs does not compile when using uClibc
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:17:19 -0400

    1- PENDING_OUTPUT_COUNT is not a feature, but an internal
       implementation trick.  Not sure what is the corresponding feature.

If you type a character during redisplay, it preempts output.
But all the characters that are buffered have to come out on the terminal
before it really succeeds in preempting.

The feature which PENDING_OUTPUT_COUNT is used for
is to limit the amount of output that gets buffered,
so that preemption is snappy.
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