GNU bug report logs - #30626
26.0.91; Crash when traversing a `stream-of-directory-files'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:23:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 26.0.91

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>, 30626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30626: 26.0.91; Crash when traversing a `stream-of-directory-files'
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:54:57 +0100

Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Agreed, but could you please open a new thread for it? AFAICT, this
> bug thread is about streams.el functions producing structures
> proportional in size to the length of the entire stream, which is a
> bug in itself, regardless of whether or not the GC can handle the
> result.

No, it is a feature: we want streams to produce these structures,
streams are delayed lists, not just iterators.  Lists are also
potentially unlimited nested conses, and that's not a bug.  Streams are
the same realized with delayed conses.


Michael.
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