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bug#31996: 27.0.50; [w32] while dumping: assertion failed: specpdl_ptr->
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#31996: 27.0.50; [w32] while dumping: assertion failed: specpdl_ptr->kind == SPECPDL_UNWIND_PTR && specpdl_ptr->unwind_ptr.func == xfree |
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Fri, 29 Jun 2018 09:13:46 +0300 |
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:57:46 -0700
> Cc: 31996@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Noam Postavsky wrote:
> > Maybe that kind of trick deserves a code comment?
>
> I thought about doing that, but it seemed like the maintenance cost of having
> the comment there indefinitely wasn't worth the minor performance benefit (a
> benefit that applies only to typical platforms and when optimization is
> enabled,
> facts that'd also probably need to be in the comment). For what it's worth,
> this
> stuff is now documented in the bug report....
But maybe a comment explaining why the order might matter in general
could be of more value, and require less maintenance.