GNU bug report logs - #17215
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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 08:09:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #40 received at 17215 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: 17215 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dak <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17215: Acknowledgement (Build failure)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 23:10:17 +0300

> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:11:26 -0700
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
> 
> 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.
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