GNU bug report logs - #57878
Emacs native compilation on startup can crash the system

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Message #8 received at 57878 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net>
To: 57878 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Minimal reproducible setup
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 12:28:45 +0200

My understanding of site-start.el is that it actually loads all the
Emacs packages that are listed in my Guix profile. Which means that my
package list matters. Here is a minimal containerized example that
creates a process avalanche:

    guix shell -C emacs emacs-ido-completing-read+ \
       -- emacs --batch --eval="(print load-path)"

ido-completing-read+ is a rather small Emacs package, and I don't see
anything obvious in it that could cause trouble with native compilation.
But more importantly, I think no package should be able to cause the
behavior that I observe.

Cheers
  Konrad.

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