Re: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc.

[Paul Eggert]

Daniel Colascione wrote:
> I'd rather
> Emacs just die on C stack overflow

That would certainly be easier to implement! But as a user I would not find it 
acceptable.

>  except when we know we're running
> Lisp in such a way that we know we can recover.

I'm afraid that's not good enough, as stack overflow can occur while running C 
code.

> The only real change we have to make is to have Emacs longjmp not to
> return_to_command_loop (which might skip module frames), but to longjmp
> instead to the most deeply nested entry point from module code into
> Emacs, which we can set up in advance whenever a module calls into the
> Emacs API.

Yes, that looks like something we should do, then, to get stack overflow 
checking working with modules.