Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

>> There are quite a few places in the C code of Emacs
>> where execution can get stuck; that's why I added immediate quitting.
>> The problems I fixed that way have all come back.
[...]
>> What was the reason for this change?

The main reason was that you can't do it reliably in X11 because to
detect a C-g requires non-trivial processing which can't be performed
reliably from a signal handler.


        Stefan