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[PROPOSED PATCH] ‘signal’ no longer returns

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Message #16 received at 24047-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 24047-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24047: Should 'signal' sometimes return?
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:42:27 +0200

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On 07/23/2016 08:37 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Haven't looked in detail, but it looks OK.

Thanks, I installed it in 'master' and am marking this as done.

>
> A further patch could change the new `quit' function so it checks
> debug-on-quit, and either calls the debugger or calls Fsignal.  This way
> we don't need the intermediate signal_or_quit function.

I tried something along those lines (see attached), but wasn't convinced 
that the result was correct (there are a lot of flags flying around), 
and my patch would cause quits to traverse the handler list twice, which 
seems inelegant.

[attempt.diff (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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