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

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> 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 21:47:35 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 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?

Because line numbers are much harder to get right.

Andreas.

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