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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs |
Date: | Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:13:58 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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
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