Re: Merging calls to `abort'

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn at raeburn dot org>]

On Mar 16, 2005, at 11:23, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     But what are you saying to those users who don't like it that GNU 
> programs
>     abort silently when they discover bugs in themselves?  Aren't you 
> saying
>     "tough" in a somewhat more polite way?
>
> No, because nobody has complained about it.  The idea that Emacs
> should not use plain abort to crash has only been raised here, not by
> Emacs users.  The real complaint that I really got was about
> cross-jumping.

As a user (and when I have time, which hasn't been the case in a while, 
an occasional contributor) of both Emacs and GCC, I prefer the 
fancy_abort/assert approaches.  I haven't complained, because I've just 
taken it as a foregone conclusion that that's the way you want Emacs to 
work, and I don't feel strongly enough about it to try to convince you 
otherwise.  That, and the (occasional) problems I run into tend to be 
bad addresses causing faults more than explicit calls to abort.

Ken