GNU bug report logs - #51577
27.2; Regression: reproducible hang with face functions

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 02:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, notabug, wontfix

Found in version 27.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 51577 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51577 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#51577: 27.2; Regression: reproducible hang with face functions
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 19:15:23 +0100

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

> And how does your code differ from this:
>
>   (while t nil)
>
> Or would you consider it a bug that Emacs doesn't detect the infinite
> while-loop, either?

We do try to detect loops in other situations (to avoid hangs).  This is
in redisplay code, though (I think?), so perhaps it would be
prohibitively expensive to try to detect loops here?

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