Subject: Re: bug#71178: Acknowledgement (Batch ert wrongly aborts a test run, and wrongly fails to say why.)

From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 19:03:36 +0000

tags 71178 + wontfix
close 71178
quit

The trigger for this bug was a Lisp structure generated by pcase which
was over PRINT_CIRCLE (200) elements deep.  The error handler attempted
to print a backtrace, which in turn attempted to print the Lisp
structure.  This led to a recursive exception.

The ert test which triggered the bug has been removed.  pcase has been
amended to produce less deeply nested Lisp structures.

So it seems appropriate to close this bug as won't fix, given that it's
not currently causing problems, and nobody's working on it.  It could be
reopened if the same problem were to crop up again.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).