Jerry James writes:
PATCH 21.5
FWIW, emacs behaves in the way I consider sensible. If you trigger
an
assertion failure while already handling an assertion failure or fatal
error, emacs shuts down immediately.
Uh, in practice, so does XEmacs. Only if somebody insane (or who is
Ben Wing, which may not be the same thing ;-) #defines
ASSERTIONS_DONT_ABORT does this extremely dangerous behavior occur.
But that requires actually editing the source AFAIK. Are you sure
you've actually observed assert_failed returning?
XEmacs *did* (or does) have a different issue, where signals during
the shutdown process are handled rather than dumping core. If you've
actually observed recursive crashes, I don't think the change you're
making will prevent them.
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