Subject: bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 23:10:17 +0300

> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:11:26 -0700
> From: Daniel Colascione <[email-masked]>
> 
> Still waiting to hear a response to my previous question on why we don't
> just abort as soon as we detect pure overflow.

AFAIR, we used to do that in the past, but then an overflow during a
build would trap you.  So now we don't (and actually you have an
overflow every time you run "temacs -batch -load loadup bootstrap"
during a normal build.