Re: Emacs segfaults when handling wrong_type_argument backtrace

[Jonas Jelten]

On 2023-03-30 12:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> > Cc: Jonas Jelten <jj@sft.lol>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:36:25 +0000
> >
> > Eli if we want to avoid spurious bug reports due to stale eln-cache we
> > can also increment ABI_VERSION in comp.c.  Not sure is something we want
> > to do tho.  Please let me know if you think is appropriate in this case.
>
> I don't think we need to increment ABI_VERSION to avoid bug reports,
> no.  Yes, that places additional burden on my and your shoulders
> (perhaps mainly on yours), but bumping the ABI_VERSION has its own
> downsides (e.g., it requires recompilation of all the preloaded
> files), and I don't think this is justified.  People who track
> development versions and use that for production sessions will have to
> be prepared to clean up their eln-cache from time to time, when
> changes like this one are made.

After clearing the cache it seems to work, thanks, that was easy.
I assumed that changes in the abi would result in a version bump :)
Shouldn't recompilation of files happen in such a case rather than random 
crashes, though? Or ar there other, more complicated downsides?


Cheers
  -- Jonas