GNU bug report logs - #7728
24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #125 received at 7728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'martin rudalics'" <rudalics <at> gmx.at>,
	"'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 7728 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#7728: 24.0.50; GDB backtrace from abort
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:58:23 -0800

> `save-window-excursion' is the macro never to use.  It should
> be used exclusively for debugging and prototyping.  Application 
> programmers who prefer to work with multiple frames themselves
> should know best and avoid `save-window-excursion' like the
> plague.  At least in "released" code.  Anything else is
> masochism.

Unbelievable language.  What dogmatism.  What hyperbole.  One can only hope that
the same swashbuckling, slash-and-burn attitude is not taken when you modify the
code.

I wonder how that particular plague escaped the attention of Richard et al for
35 years?  It's a wonder that it was ever documented, except perhaps as a mortal
danger.
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 357 days ago.

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