GNU bug report logs - #58158
29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration considered harmful

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 05:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Fixed in version 30.1

Done: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 58158 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 58158 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#58158: 29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration
 considered harmful
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:09:17 +0200

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

>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
>> I personally think this is a no-go.
>
> Really?  Even if we take all the measures mentioned above?

Yes.

> Why so?

I think it simply can't be that what is basically walking a binary tree
requires such restrictions.  And if it does because of some quirk of the
interval tree in itree.c, something is seriously wrong with the design.

That's a bit harsh, but I mean it :-).
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