GNU bug report logs - #11913
Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>

Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:00:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #47 received at 11913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rlb <at> defaultvalue.org
Subject: Re: bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386
	machine
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:37:18 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: rlb <at> defaultvalue.org,  11913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:19:58 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > No, line 819 is this:
> >
> >   (defun diary-hebrew-birthday (month day year &optional after-sunset)
> 
> I put less trust in the precise line number reported by the Emacs byte
> compiler. :)

This is a slippery slope: if we don't trust that (in a released
version!), then why do we trust the rest of that error message?
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