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 #57 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 <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#51577: 27.2; Regression: reproducible hang with face functions
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 01:39:38 +0100

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

>> > Similarly, inheritance loops can (and usually do) appear at run time,
>> > because faces are added or their attributes modified or merged with
>> > other faces.
>> 
>> Hm...  will merging lead to loops?
>
> That's exactly what happened in the case in point: we merged the
> 'default' font with the 'region' font.

I see.  OK, then I think there isn't much we can do on the usability
front here, and checking for loops at display time would be prohibitive,
apparently, so we're not going to fix this, and I'm closing this bug
report.

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