Re: nil became bound to (#<save_value ptr=0x085526f0 int=0> 96536 96288)

[Joe Wells]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

>  > >> I'm using the Gentoo ebuild app-editors/emacs-22.0.50_pre20050225
>  > >> which is based on a CVS snapshot from 2005-02-25.
>  > >
>  > > It's a waste of everyone's time to report bugs in such an old CVS 
> snapshot.
>  > > Please update from the current CVS and recheck to see if the bug is
>  > > still there.
>  > 
>  > If someone makes a Gentoo ebuild that does that, I will be happy to,
>  > but otherwise I don't have the time.
>
> Then you should report the bug to a Gentoo mailing list

They are quite unlikely to have expertise in dealing with nil becoming
rebound in Emacs.

>  > Anyway, maybe not everyone else will have the same attitude that you
>  > do.
>
> Others might just ignore the message, but no-one without Gentoo can help you
> if the bug is no longer in CVS.

I've been running this version of Emacs for 6 months, during which
time the bug happened exactly once.  Furthermore, I can not reproduce
it.  Therefore, it is obviously a bug that is very difficult to
trigger.  Therefore, there is a good chance the bug still exists.
Given that the bug involves nil becoming rebound, which cripples
Emacs, it is clear that it is serious.  Therefore, if someone else
were to come across the bug, they could benefit from knowing something
about the circumstances under which I encountered it.  Therefore, I
reported it.

I quite frankly don't care why you feel the need to be rude about my
report.  Take it for what it is, a report of some details about an
interesting way in which something very bad can happen to Emacs.

-- 
Joe