subr.el (21.5.31) for 21.5.29

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an naoú lá is fiche de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Uwe Brauer: 

 > Either I use defalias or comment out that line when I load a file and try
 > to do something I get an alarming message of the sort
 > 
 > (stack-overflow "Variable binding depth exceeds
 > max-specpdl-size")
 > 
 > To be precise
 >
 > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (stack-overflow "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size")
 >   sort(((5.010001 "September Gnus v0.1" nil gnus-convert-old-ticks) (5.090008 "Oort Gnus v0.08" "legacy-gnus-agent" gnus-agent-convert-to-compressed-agentview) (5.1007 "Gnus v5.10.7" "legacy-gnus-agent" gnus-agent-unlist-expire-days) (5.1007 "Gnus v5.10.7" "legacy-gnus-agent" gnus-agent-unhook-expire-days)) car-less-than-car)
 > 

That is *possibly* the bug fixed by this:

http://mid.gmane.org/19636.40130.86152.626691@parhasard.net

Though your backtrace is not actually a circular-list error.

It might be better to just add the definition of float-time to your
~/.xemacs/init.el, and use an unmodified 21.5.29.

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